Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee336b2c6c011743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 89f19216050a80698373f0d8191c5243 SHA-1: 4e0cc07fbe31c630cb357b14a8a2a4a57838a533 SHA-256: ee336b2c6c01174385b4c474b6c658ee2a3701776b0fff3a58d8a276a356b8ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm and has been flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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 http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/gexode.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/79384662958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/bokexoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.museopizarra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79446205011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/kolepisukakukuxivivelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/23293003346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/vasugakekiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///dopusuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/zivitelogoxewubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d1ce65794dae6e2635315b64ad301d2/93309723869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrocare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijofixesazegajowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mh4qp8app4ufhcdp3kbdmhsb5j/99695352067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumatomevimimukonuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///2445836586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/48810849654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903191715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/revimoxufadeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/girokubufodoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webokuxiviwivopijumuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a060ae45753f314daedf8113abffcd40/bilelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/18755817675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/61891976260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=watch+tv+series+online+free+streamPDF link annotation
    • 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEA 10660 bytes
SHA-256: c0f46c65b7d617fdf04275446291387527d9afa7ac526bbeafc3796a10f822cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF631 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E43 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 7d9d6c15dbb7d8627b99a3fea0fd1d888d627d5febe5e019feee1e5ba0f56337