Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee70ac599016906d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:31:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6c29a976cc389a4a901f3b07f33ae6d6 SHA-1: 23bb1bd0ac666239a50a86bca59b9e2a75550ee2 SHA-256: ee70ac599016906d75e247fd75bc97fe139ce14da516007b9881599bcc3864d1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt at SEO poisoning or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=general+knowledge+questions+and+answers+pdf+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxumatawatebopabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.com/file/77222637887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/nufamukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/92737831298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h939o0onscac7u1vsrg2pdrc0s/munejudivonodawudekoxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantage.ee/media/contents/file/gezuwifotilexonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicare-darmstadt.de/bilder/UserImages/file/gotanupawizaperija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18871232039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/natubaxepezipagekuxomov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cepatdaftargroup2.com/contents/files/48843699169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alohasafaris.com/files/xivafomevanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/72791648477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346bbbef39d---tanowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8417a5f6bbbfc7411519e1966d9fac0a/6691689098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/60389304564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/vasusadovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/56782770278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijibefajomozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/viratofenidato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/51019794864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://academiapreprod.riportico.com/userfiles/files/xazonatevalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/96222751720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctsw.net/whly/up_files/FCK/file/20210905_005210_123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/96815177790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/62698837881.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_off0000f5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBE 11304 bytes
SHA-256: 0278c54ddfec9ea96fe33d5450ace51058219f1e9ea6707a27ef5af7d63d7989
font_02_sfnt_off000127da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DA 18164 bytes
SHA-256: 51f26bc87851390aa9110dfc796e2f0930502681e97610667f131d447103f39b