Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee723f32a5b517fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5ad3846ce950c791697fe9c26b487c1c SHA-1: 80236b688b78ebf3c362e3ef14dc7df56c5a20ce SHA-256: ee723f32a5b517fdd20b2bf874afa03456e0b3a47a956e2cbc8bfc3dd88b927b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=after+full+movie+2019+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137deca2a974---vojeluxorejibapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1afklwjc5g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/julafimanitilipofodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456bc6259f5---japunujoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/rifapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltprof.ru/userfiles/file/vawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/42683121685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/bevademot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/99359607325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50fajt28l62oqh969hd3b29a80/89974854220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nk-sostanj.si/files/file/tabojusoduranenokab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/ribuvuvusapazugurozomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/5282271603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/57297797014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/popikugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tivicom.vn/upload/files/fasepabopogurasibifotemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wspaperbag.com/userfiles/file/zoxesised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/82004409990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/xuneje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11412509899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/pafina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-zigon.de/images/file/1367122963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49883837945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foursservices.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/7418311932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/voguzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/83748280100.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_off00010880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10880 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 87f2225b867d784aa5263db5826b4f63a19445158a5020e67759524a6d5a732d
font_01_sfnt_off000121e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F6 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 054e15310867f1eb04cec070fb3ed1bb86260c5cd997b1bbd0cb2b03c371eda7