Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee2f5233eb97772c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 21:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: bf4962b53ac887b91fbb2b9531799f4b SHA-1: 98ee9b01d63efc9b40197a945df315f644945167 SHA-256: ee2f5233eb97772ce105471db54dc54cf049b5030733d2f0b1c347b372ff4ed2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fts+20+android+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cef73020ee---1037328581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824ba26831f---35050393627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/89289879890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/losuzedokovowezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb4g7pn6iemoprfitvgqlle2k4/69841820075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7f309b725---41680112259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaint-house.com/85379458132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/21547690951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82283edafba073b0754bee579f66c317/nerevawuwitarizusojakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/sogaxosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/razenezarexizelilenaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13c1329bb14c65e9715064585b161136/xixubegebegodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086be3b087bb---83885605101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1866e28b8---vafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/70283589618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee4305ca49---91538721016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907953b0ebc---sifusipire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66063af18f---dubanezibijomile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a45b167194---jamesidevideniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BD 5140 bytes
SHA-256: e69152a8c5518ceb0310b456f68614842a7e5f740b195300b71358eff31fa052
font_01_sfnt_off00010551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10551 1796 bytes
SHA-256: dfab3945eace5ba27be1ad95d63d5142397767eab6bca27773794b33bda2302c
font_02_sfnt_off00010ddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DDB 11700 bytes
SHA-256: 7b2551941ce9cfeb2150e9675a073015f8beb56980b241d9ace7deb694a6559d