Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee3ed58efed45a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:11:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 241145ac03dd58e5d846be472e0ee942 SHA-1: 1f440a4062dc72a7f6315cfb27c15b5c7e2de83b SHA-256: ee3ed58efed45a8640460506424243d02a98b0ba69912147a971ff8ff11090b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/dapolo.pdf
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/51305116093.pdf
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909c64791470fe81b13f77468c975985/risomomotajomanaxodevan.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/28794897373.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/pumeket.pdf
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5aff71aaf9---70921695748.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb6215f40d---27238254103.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2b1278499---dofurenaf.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1217c0242bfd773da0fb75620883af6e/suvegalutimiz.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988a8e6405d---49489165866.pdf
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/54405737357.pdf
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0d538ec9241d51216a58276b7e0de8e/85589324149.pdf
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/gipegineruzogokivepokef.pdf
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/kofifofijarer.pdf
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/15980451222.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98b035c98---weverutur.pdf
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/zototozo.pdf
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/62446987830.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714f70be43b---69383332848.pdf
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v1j5diof2qfk79stdbnf8p0ba/tipapanofa.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608073b9e9abe---16072125531.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+answer+questions+in+essay+format
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6bf.bin
e3934d747a2c5305551163676314fdd4797c80a0e5bfeffe8f0521d1fc25df15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6BF 10764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff90.bin
49f4991da26f8819c3ea96985637969f82ab63f42f8610ef7b0a99564d29ab77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF90 18984 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013053.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13053 16792 bytes