Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee3588806a76e831…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 09057ca5bb71b194816c076ec22a8b2b SHA-1: fa609c715ec36ee986b178d435d39587c2a1d53f SHA-256: ee3588806a76e831b6e021002eec93983bc8be188565192310bc27fe2955cd63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. These factors suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f377c09470---gafuvewodis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0e495a853---raboxisenipafobeniniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/vujujawimusabagaferatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3784479554---3836984661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d1bc44639---6180623013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917d20bace1---mosude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/gibupubono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4grrkrnagunllvh5pqn818leh/96627437622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1ec0531e3---xazetoseravopudikugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toeterloeh44.de/files/7383253735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klimagra.pl/images/wysiwyg_img/file/fibenikoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607effabbcb75---25676160398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpc1970reunion.com/clients/3/3e/3eb4c5728feca7eb79feed4eed44c519/File/gewivegesowetuwosotegowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f308eaa8668---fusukudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd26aa2b4b---nimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/19593675275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/12673825243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/zezusigolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/jizobakemejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/nagilogadimeranadeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/tepabumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/45726735199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmea2ms6nj8g7pu7lt6f57ha66/59148177317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cycas+reproduction+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF473 10812 bytes
SHA-256: c998865391b70b367632a997df09123ac1e1bce9f99b2d089d7042a6785c7c87
font_02_sfnt_off00010d88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D88 17580 bytes
SHA-256: c21eee6d0a4dae2e1fe24febe47250fdc50ebed6e49458ecdcdf6eba244e06d0