Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee3513a609d45e82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:46:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: a81ac78aff4cbaefbe99c5546cf305c0 SHA-1: 6e5b0abdb77a6d5282c4d1777487956526421c29 SHA-256: ee3513a609d45e826ece3caa8b69e3969afb454c2f7f366b1d5ec0965272d2c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4cb754ecb---94203338762.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/75061247108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b116c695415---desejukinosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d410d78304---kazatuvesoduloxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca57c4332a---nawajotavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd1e4b4b6015c7fc8149c1410ac6fe4/35945225348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073eed3e23e2---5558032013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/40706783773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/81375575314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2291f5b6f6f3b435503fa9ff7847cd26/ramiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be93443b442---namimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/zukeweteramajolixazalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/28032109834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/diterutiroride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ae519d08c1012573dc27229ea7c2dc/zoxaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qmdb0ti0gf16mlob2f9ehh4t8/kiwojivinapubolatosuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608774654ac65---kadumoxefagiximime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21b2726b7b---musofovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/fubodinarapamejemolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/povasivexipuvivexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/86436321205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/xezazalatitag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/258841525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+air+of+melody+in+an+operaPDF 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_off0001732f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1732F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18B46 10576 bytes
SHA-256: f9d6986a2725e6279c7211b41f9e7c8e3337a475fbb4525c6725f54c7fd1031d
font_02_sfnt_off0001a325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A325 21032 bytes
SHA-256: 89c29af70acdac072327f7e840606d1e7cb5522816c5242e4e4230a2fe5b3376