Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee406bec6b807dfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 01:13:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e28b2e1978d3163373d676aa2248658e SHA-1: e4b09b1bf1f9f4e6ddd6798882a84aa828016e12 SHA-256: ee406bec6b807dfaedd32de6e1157105c4c590170fbf3e0a835cf1741e7b9e24
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a QR code lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613149a088c48---9666784953.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/juponidobadetune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7841493201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/bekoxujuzaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce806d01c531bab6fbb50b53f196c034/78001214684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/29544462799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/72735513300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/43876188336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gajagotour.com/UserFiles/file/7844956993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f05dc3515a---naxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/rinegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infas.cz/images/wiswig/file/39275209958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfc834090ebf0934857b1f7a7b0531b2/disoluvixujamiwigafivexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bijdud1t93pn0jal1u49nadjs/61014720655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135fa501600e---65516103469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/76134405677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnomatec.cl/upload/file/xubimikubebijabomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cermak-expo.cz/data/files/file/43223833683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gachmenminhchien.com/media/ftp/file/xemulamavamurene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/9138824777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/tevofepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizomesujigapoxavutukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/72223991097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirinthepgroup.com/userfiles/file/nebosedupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+live+wallpaper+from+tiktokPDF 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_off0000d7f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F3 17212 bytes
SHA-256: 8ed74dc12346650e075a2f52d9b0c4ff524d65b89dc62ebb44327c19a2ea60db
font_01_sfnt_off00010437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10437 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4E 10484 bytes
SHA-256: c0deb5808d563c02869fa52cf81ea7d1d1b6973b55b45edf3a06216aad1d22ed