Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee67330ad489cebd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-06-23 00:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 86d004e36133b1008b8eabd85b1677bb SHA-1: 75a4d08e4abdb5dec3170a582ba7452c6f51d87c SHA-256: ee67330ad489cebd5c6a7b266d6f49b705fcb29b6b7f8d45ffae7e59eec3a61e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to redirect users to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=verbal+reasoning+questions+and+answers+for+cat PDF link annotation
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea97837cfd5488185298271441087305/82428775661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f00ae2da17---50585607305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928ccf13ca3---dawam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efd2d266c8---88220233983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ckknlobcn3uvni1cfp0p7sl7nc/5043247510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqugsmuqu06h07kqhaj5dc3ad2/sezimuturafamonugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210614135414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c0829d347---44522427145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/829d77cbaa5dfe07ffb6847c427ed8d9/84298605071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900835ea8417e8db3eeda0da2b5f67e7/jotafaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/felejawebazepuwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607879e349050---38607522076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/famufesukasirajaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexrocksrollovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42pi7e00h7sp2ogvljsusahdnf/14123293234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4cf1e87a8---fuberix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nt8q4ef26bt2c0coa82jqffr3/62480750737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928fd2aabc8---93836594160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/tuzoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ffd180107---28242760745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000120f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F2 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 19e4c1371dad1a375369257bf89cedc526aed4cfa8a984a873cedf2ab88c5127
font_01_sfnt_off000133c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C1 1588 bytes
SHA-256: 72cd4a01bb5cfa04fbd1c6108ba4597632f0c93cd33f12d34e8f352cb257b169
font_02_sfnt_off00013be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BE8 11604 bytes
SHA-256: 3346a7d98ae44e288dc2e7c5984e10ef08c8006844cb79258db038ac8e372ad1
font_03_sfnt_off00016367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16367 16104 bytes
SHA-256: d2703eec0843ee934b0a8bba7850da2550094fb4af61d17619ccbf35009047d2