Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee6ca50400a9f513…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 22:17:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: bbb5adb32cd828b0faa0b43c23764ad4 SHA-1: 6ca32205ef4622cfbd1da741343df1d016780093 SHA-256: ee6ca50400a9f5132dfba43bcbc2b3a14356f1f41a32419e2c543c33641be498
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, but no clear instructions or lures are discernible from the readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/tirotilepi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/tavimitivigasubibiles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv2edgoe6a5jjm4gjbfsuof725/fekutukatisegezovufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1e2a1385a---wusumexezowasiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2216bf7be978206b873c13fbb9b7c10/jifigubovojife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca3db0968d---zaxozubimitemeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/4292773219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082411d28ded---26606392050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/97280925292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbe878a874---kadobajubuxoziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/42572912659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819f21e9cc6---37341755570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a90fef95db2a6971c92eeb420f7192/69637309399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28fba0a719---foxozajedafujisomitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/kefeginozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f80443fa0---fagesimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=new+telugu+movies+tamilrockersPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE16 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 7248853a055fe1e34b026f911ed328b7a63b3cabb50c4bfefd17cf13f3cf94b3
font_01_sfnt_off00011030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11030 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 49ccc5c61fc71a7a2f54ba491c2e2ad1df9c6ff5a868a49ae19379852b5d3c20
font_02_sfnt_off000134e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E3 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 8b78d773763660eba00de27443a2f3f27de043a0404a252e14a47344327f0149