Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee56372e6b0d0550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 81855de7df5df6bb3f43673754c31447 SHA-1: 738f0670747a551edcaf9c67106e5482dee8ed26 SHA-256: ee56372e6b0d0550b80956864cf5b069c34308321ba250e7d394d1feaa66f0f6
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of urgency and download lures further supports this. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 9

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sun-tes.ru/files/file/67480820682.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c9821e236e---8817114647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/tesigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/83899863510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/93738698385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/jomewukalifimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/bipezuvexojuzipusudopoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45ac2e511e---55791616197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5b73d7526---deziwafalopegutevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/mewulomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/21780846240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deraxokijewogevaramezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriologos.it/userfiles/files/61374569033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/33249752544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/257d4c9447afe803afdddf707603576e/kozorejefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b5fe5b494---63742220863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44b4669c66---85267560659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/80305105155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608987571ad62---relav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609450e455bae---badudagibofovijamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/nagasagakitepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c33041c790a---fujitubuzepelobuvuzimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/63359941063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/83136165379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=guia+ceneval+medicina+pdfPDF 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_off00010e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E40 19900 bytes
SHA-256: 050d906883eca1c77b3b7f8f93fe1ce9c934b641edc64609c55c30e0d8ca0ae2
font_01_sfnt_off00014289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14289 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015aa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AA0 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 6d3407ac5f80d5eea6d14cb60c889ed3bb253337998636e950dac9a4760cd1fb