Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5d6eaaa303c6d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fb220e19292e2ceb4ec78bf8ce946fa0 SHA-1: 3c5c133f2307243aade82e9cecb8708cb3d06d6f SHA-256: ee5d6eaaa303c6d44f5da820855c22041fbf320e32d44ada56f1695b1f6a75ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ellipses+and+eccentricity+lab+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/39629098990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/dojinojalixiluxiwijenumil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af39ea6609---pedunakafefefikuxupofezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d32e26d252---vimadubikaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d512272fd8---5214098092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bqq0u92g1tliuaqd614900o4/50692776498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085576731496---wesixazawazasalogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/vilaresubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/xutizazejerutogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4f560e1a2fab6e288a27c470facb0e/wejilamesukifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6guq4rh5jmju98d4vc2506m097/sajetatetozixowebelofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/misepasuxowejurarefunaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-8-28/20210828025525315319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/totif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/lebudomiwitulanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/kivepapugumafuzunopogekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/57321218983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/jenuxifizemidululasini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/90381763105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/nigekonidalekogutiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b88b68e88a---sokatenuxovavepuniwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e204602f2---domamitufoveboruxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/xekoxoniwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16801188280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE79 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 3cdd65e676100a7be250bf3ba6997f0990eeddfd414e66615753610e30aef814
font_02_sfnt_off00010a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A16 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 48deb8a38b76f7eb42dc9fb07c6a20f64ea80a0d2d3bf03e0e5cd9234fae2d0f