Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee3ad78bceeddc34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:58:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e56428b6dc40f7368b6b6986b3ee0f7e SHA-1: 99f48921ca8dcf4a668ff269f680fe8b1fd79e44 SHA-256: ee3ad78bceeddc34fee2cdd2ed910c8c590a5eb42836d7c7cb1403023e93e923
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external URIs strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://gyobel.itpublic/file/45827596025.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur2.com/contents//files/62059752076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/75605189480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a634159f107---lomuvulepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210601_024854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/3196056084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fedizafarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/gosirinabutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/76057456545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/jofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35cb705d2f8ee6e592200fb8fdeebc5/27386504884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/22092626162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30724b2fcc---kafevazobubukotonotukepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/85820113635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/kixamisixiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20504eb2eb---51580700182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210701202118148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzph.com/userfiles/file/Fl202107300423229475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/losavugazefotufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=nespresso+manual+coffee+machinePDF 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_off0000b5c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDDB 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 4cafdb8807140688691dd4130bb699511fb9187ad3b1945d5ecc51f539250d69
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3F 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 4840bc39a5e1fb38061c70a851aff333862d3f2c647535778b7a5ad45e3ef649