Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5e5ba02377d4d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 17:00:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0b674a2bb75dd44b4f3ad4663c13d165 SHA-1: 92d6c7ddf70d0d6ac8e5bdf933a65d769c218d16 SHA-256: ee5e5ba02377d4d88367e4835dd8f971690a2679f82ca7f614791bf2b3d9ba6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs and the structure suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/zusevo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0dd85573f---39024298681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b541687b2dc---gisinusanelugunetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/6639956664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/58137858973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/73389889193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dab82f79470---59363973127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a090e58955fed160aca0fe873582c437/48312059853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rnsnider-classof-68.com/clients/9/9a/9aaec9a1f64917203b32d8bba7bf2533/File/64966645241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210518103517_290257755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/23464332679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents//files/paweponelixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/98569284977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65961268620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/vowixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62777233651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiss-ex.com/durunuzumepuvexeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c77023d60---zoxapotunafiwonavade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/5435263411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/gixitakodulopomikiruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82382795630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096da99db5fc---ruxawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/3841182225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyreviveshop.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/16957654250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbf6429403---35863525679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1dff5ee139---88950616542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=neet+previous+question+papers+with+solutionsPDF 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_off0000eae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE6 10724 bytes
SHA-256: a790ff963cfbdee4fbcf5153db27479c2986337a1fafe4feefcf26f3b1b83c52
font_01_sfnt_off00010384.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10384 16824 bytes
SHA-256: a99e621d8046c42d53789e16734b243673b47202e8545b6862efeca90997440f
font_02_sfnt_off00012f81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1