Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee3f63742d1bfdd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:00:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 06377867c2affe916a14b3a6bbf71d3f SHA-1: 03673f48e29b7623fcbd1601f581a5df7f71fe2c SHA-256: ee3f63742d1bfdd9c0438f21a3a75e5923488b3ce857ab3cec1d8167d2a15cf8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate it likely attempts to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=religious+trust+deed+format+pdf+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/07/31/gevizepobodevefisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ave-france.com/pics/files/zegikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088088947bcc---88271471944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c79477033---36175867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/10580618032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b746011e07---53532373795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g2lv9gaf2dl913mc3kh9cg67q/tudemutufunifatigesufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/nuximemusirufaxedetawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohensevents.com/clients/74638/File/bebuxukutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c379cc11f---fevemofifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a780517c1ee---subatelomejobajerowanezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32747765653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/fobodijugoviwagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nov0fkemessma47a74vm98k54/12979457027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monktonlionsclubkidscamp.com/clients/9/99/99b8b5517e5fb663501b7ee5137ebf55/File/1918969339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorkiematch.com/clients/6/65/653dc45b8f6063886304ac4260dbb99c/File/visixoxepajojazufipilufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7378d2e079b65b910fc211e4335f5469/2401885742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210901030930158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ab840e5b4a298ec3331a6dbfbcead69/58882629578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e30f7032e61---vixuwavogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79ebbjemhs3qbhbs0a3kstlqf8/99575845628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/gujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d8ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CA 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 5abeafdea83837d7455be3bf226fde7d26a61c0e2f6492dc90199f47bbb3af81
font_01_sfnt_off0000f21b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2D 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 49aaddb01d1c7bc572f5bc11891de1f9a0329ed1be484e9e10dc306bbd30187f