Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee750d93b8b6fa20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 16:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 0da123f37faecd5ce279c621aade3b2c SHA-1: b2b905097c717879548d269f6122255afc6ac1ab SHA-256: ee750d93b8b6fa20a5923d2730455acb1f0e4e77ab6721bec1cc6089abfc8b6d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of 'LOLBin token sequence in document text' and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further indicate malicious intent. The document likely serves as a lure to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9520

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=curly+girl+the+handbook+free PDF link annotation
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098af26cc704---3444180847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b022dc7200---vifomojisekegoregikoginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39f3153794---gosidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capital-tic.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210531144634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8142274ebf---satarefudupumibos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/rudipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a7b344435---41378606125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/58452797825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahnersatz.pl/userfiles/files/55076553684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc069cbe5---vokegipegezipodebejutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plastikacz.cz/soubory/files/fubopijafibebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed68893fbc988e6c008369f019c9dfe8/jepapijipoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mut7ke2kfdrfc3eo7vkefecra6/riwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6E 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 9228959abafa4c4af9bfa91551d96c8c852bf182664a3686f9a6482929d227a9
font_01_sfnt_off0001301f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301F 12112 bytes
SHA-256: 91123757a4e38e7d36758da2d41d0d165f2163562901843b5243e366b55d2eed