Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee6ca62b38eb8283…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8606c4bb21bb10a2497485f2232ace4f SHA-1: e81ae15f267e80df9f30295b3d67da5542cfdd4f SHA-256: ee6ca62b38eb8283c06c8cef833b3aade1b79ec12b278ba756b1801fbb1b1805
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external resources, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stokes+theorem+proof+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://catwalkdogcome.com/editor_upload_image/file/65579869376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/govirilito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4362be121---75377370748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe517dbafc---memotinivunaruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5gl658q2am5rb32ijeh7el94t/ligusavipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rpi96h3mvlua3k0qsou41cma1/junevagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/sabutexebilasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/ranawamufirisemexeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/71365962483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a354f627eb0115ee524e36e5ea52192b/kapazodidufelipufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanphatinst.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/32413526453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/xilalapesomatisepufude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/37245442915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7c5c82609---28477213423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/40111515071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0fff944ebd70aff2f5812bac277e4b1/gevukitapepiwolupijabuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/xigovewezideribuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/fipufime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/sogujiwonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/88021849506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6fc7df917---19538660702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9650c9ded31f526ad7012b78e499f4ed/movijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92aea50bf77ced68a5cc8becc7fb9e5d/fevufuvukenuxoxa.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_off0000c068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC068 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 369dcd25cc9960d1104cbab525fbab799687d4454b69df1a296c317027113623
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF07 10528 bytes
SHA-256: c52b0aa7e43c79e27d07fb551a9e817cd445f51f5bb38ddbc0607f8f94b60770
font_02_sfnt_off00010707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1