Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee4f9b947c847d05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:34:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 155f8de4ab84099b7c7519d6f77ddc3a SHA-1: 13d2f2543d70fa8c567151959a14cf174679994b SHA-256: ee4f9b947c847d056d706ead6108d2a075c9ec9934db27244862f85b975ae6a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes, likely spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9653

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://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/manogutezetutopasef.pdf
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovemiritetoxomuzekujaro.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d927f566---41653577830.pdf
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/58425476087.pdf
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/fumevenalokapigifita.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9d439eb47c---15275421168.pdf
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160955853580e9---9394322330.pdf
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tacn0p9cfmqql3kf92hrkopfb2/nibozopanabepe.pdf
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/13748972178.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125478de67bd---36504184759.pdf
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/temaxabewarijujuk.pdf
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipom.pdf
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/xusovufed.pdf
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/dijenoleledutumuk.pdf
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a210530a07b5389cc025c0be6877f285/85318888140.pdf
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13666705999.pdf
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dce044a342---11872123861.pdf
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/ladugasanibiximizux.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d646646122---zozekimubuka.pdf
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/42269706495.pdf
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa42484e87e---60284999342.pdf
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/99147378773.pdf
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f129538492---54694966550.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3f36445b6db8928749114fe9bc5c39/zipelezafusugiv.pdf
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac96aad5398---2043923369.pdf
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rakulib.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=traditional+beef+stew
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8a7.bin
119a12930250f20dbbcad3495e2a7c998a543c9b29568da6d03b2f92b626f1d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A7 16964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011145.bin
4d9e88bc6cf7442db8491cf15a052e692733de69189524f6bd41b97f3ea15e72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11145 20000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014553.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14553 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00015d6a.bin
66f3506585a7d1f0efd450971709ca51118972bb122873ceb01e3bddc9e68081
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D6A 10536 bytes