Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee72b5e8b75eced9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 029b460642b6f585764303e9fb6d0fa2 SHA-1: 3718a00907f3c6a5b665203371882e43f12e5270 SHA-256: ee72b5e8b75eced97fec06f5405074e50d686038555cbe8e975b734951587764
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the heuristic findings and URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roll+your+ankle PDF link annotation
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/99913640940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/84663967482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aczelzalog.hu/tmp/37150384793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/42573057689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/60172705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7af8e939af39653eb250a6f7a54b11d6/26421552541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/23732229903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/vebise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed99a39d7b7e036b88392bcdae2e8b0/52066855067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be21069f03---97154117731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/55804337738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/busamisefodaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/1772293374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6708895598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/noxusixixodexanivewofipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/4407700350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f077574b12---5049460149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/48733931856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2eeeaa028---90802504629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kag.fr/userfiles/file/popodaxeloveroropobezuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609729b00309e---5474783857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avs86uj0bm56k81hha2dckka2a/25727710606.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_off0000d77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77E 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 88fa7297b9169a35b5f796a53b8ee129820208d39e3e01e4088db2af2b74c58d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE22 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 503aced191997dcaa2a9d713ea3a8637245353d67a28e5be088246dd88b02704
font_02_sfnt_off00011c54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1