Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee4aaad3d4f9427b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 131fb86e7e887fbdcc0da51cdf137c4f SHA-1: 90204e6fbd045950522a4a1a507ffbb93ac7890a SHA-256: ee4aaad3d4f9427bc034ce3f6a2b595c83429cab7656f65a4c62398d8ee8897c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be luring victims to these sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vanced+manager+non+root
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skfp4cguaa5unfuhcasaiphl18/22657336420.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3efbbe065b---bujakibozafezogoj.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5193c40c39656e810470be5fc21c29/xolamalemogosejixir.pdf
    • http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/69806947583.pdf
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/lamekujaze.pdf
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0cff6ffbb0f51fad4b3f860f3e28fbb/jutojesiwozokanok.pdf
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/13249130201.pdf
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/sabawirokadefava.pdf
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzed.pdf
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/sipewina.pdf
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/40865139576.pdf
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrjs0viomls991t1jm8pr2cpvu/sunosubatulutesex.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbd7e43c4e---66589150894.pdf
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/11061818922.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6db7ce689---sapafagegaw.pdf
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/38377650679.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f730bc333d837e411b4db1a46f2c59/53216717865.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p6uqh56puk3rch9qhv61v0hn0/52004393349.pdf
    • http://btsoft.vn/uploads/files/71987694796.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1c5044e41---dofovawurixulajagexeros.pdf
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_FB64E974DD2A725A.pdf
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/2944453216.pdf
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/29919174264.pdf
    • 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_off0000c1c8.bin
911ed87d6cb97e11d2ffc5e553a1fe8b2c7fb637c47f387ae5f4c9f2129f6797
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C8 15700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000101ee.bin
71acd2d1a303ad189f77a6ced21ffe2839a4f67ff2c158e73765cb552016e25f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EE 10376 bytes