Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee60a7fb350a0e5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:06:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 289f16896f09a3f857a8ee0ab621f6b6 SHA-1: 1521cae61b0c3c6834e021f72c4c72939b91d111 SHA-256: ee60a7fb350a0e5cc5741e510a8cff027a06cae6300d7d17fa7b037bc65ef4bb
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 or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the document structure suggest an attempt to disguise malicious links within seemingly legitimate content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5frr6pqof2g0261bd2l4p7ugs/96035223970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rdh3hd5rvbo8kmu1toj7jkv4n/rivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607498c0e5159---guzodokewesovinizuwarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/1833137351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/sexatilani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f5e3a38c6---tegisowanifoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba8011c037---zajifakodofokiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd0d3q0992a65ji75o22not25a/degofezuguvozaxepexazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d404715c4d---80801302114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a474c8f234e---futiwozajosaxeveboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnb2n5jiqpc51e3k7b5nfo7h06/vireroxonovifotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f8c195d091cac2ea46757edee5d933/sixotabeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8p5caopcmf4e91khm1ei7r0h5b/puposaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/700221f5eb6d2d839dd07fc1bb327df3/23092859017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731a9932815db10889f68adb466d6b28/76569114617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/gavozadikusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/45808104487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc7e1e9cf9543e74546457423fa35616/38521054937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/mazorofuzozozelomonogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af315ce06e162eb76c5283c49cec0c8b/91399654174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/loxanikosebarifajope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d756c8745ea---navefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5125a2d7700158ef61f9dc0fdab1b99/29569649366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teckim.it/themes/userfiles//files/43470022616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=a+plant+that+grow+from+stem+cuttingPDF 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_off0000eeb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB6 11096 bytes
SHA-256: b1b1b529559dedb2a6d49f0eff20bc72922434c9af24b52a1bd8aa6225c2be55
font_01_sfnt_off0001087c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001208e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1208E 16728 bytes
SHA-256: ceec8f44a5c42df08796cf68384925618ee107e5a8f848006f94f44a9dd0aa1b