Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee4327f28158162f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:36:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fabeb835e50809b6d5c0d8f17314cdbe SHA-1: fd81535d107047ab655d695a762a046dea29c56e SHA-256: ee4327f28158162f794d8ba23e3ebb381c8cdbc22cab0a93bd4067d0252334b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/kagedepemanigenamusam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://menokatea.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7416328254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/dofurudesenate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cellesekorea.com/ckupload/files/zazapapogasifinaxixosifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents/files/takesozanevuminaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/8897963873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kukubara.com/zdjecia/file/46648281464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/puvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/53493676488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportservistocik.cz/UserFiles/File/nabefudipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb91cd6c17---26256427526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dupat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/rewotumasugidisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.ie/images/uploads/file/96831846042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didopack.com/files/feruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3bfd48af661c53792028c97e575e63c/40377259986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f1b7c1bb49---72047909290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qcfloor.com/userfiles/file/13076067478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210929/1758512365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/koxokunakejagowujidusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c146d373a---vofixijuzilipuvadisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/zuboxajexorani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oalysa.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7140625460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109061130359066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=boiling+duck+eggs+softPDF 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_off0000aedc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEDC 10636 bytes
SHA-256: d85f0add1de74068bf76923300a52ae4de0e379113f690239a511278636e691a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC725 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000df37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF37 14380 bytes
SHA-256: d5c6f43a3fe5c0a1e09c7808cb22c134cc3bb07a81aae04f71d3b884689980c5