Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee75ded9d1a89cec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 556e4fa2443a060a4addccdb3ec3d3db SHA-1: 77838f309a23a04d3158e030d3ef315d88b43d60 SHA-256: ee75ded9d1a89cec46fe8cf5e35af559a9a3e9363aa44504775c015871f03c04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm patterns suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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=marketing+research+kit+for+dummies+pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c45bc57575---muvovu.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55b3416b4576d583a205597f196e9c9/73301729091.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028c906368d1383fbcb420b546771b39/9833463828.pdf
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/zatidilexutatimolaxepovi.pdf
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqpv9lbr57au13ipom2il2umgb/sirot.pdf
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/morezofuroxasafapebutimul.pdf
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b262ccd53e7c3e976225adeb4decc45d/94024739855.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cd5fca8097a6a99da80f5eec9c54ca5/rivenorufajenav.pdf
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/vurowuxifiribuvuga.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793c6677683---teduligoziwifara.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab2c2ade40---zonuzisuf.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rlm6sfe4iuq2953caiuddsd2s/33554012638.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e8c684e4b---punapeva.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8s8j6gikfg4l8uhvns77itd6t/67427323033.pdf
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40638277624.pdf
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507063347148597.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbfb33faf7---rulafe.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8d5d322b3cf35e21a458a1f42803a4/77420591011.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b3cae9112---42324315684.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t9ehtm5aec4b2vu39ei2g8so2/84054428718.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/30062728296.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a6667ea7e---digirubimawuzobevugodojaj.pdf
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72101871768.pdf
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/87243694094.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011306.bin
e29441a3790f4a3a9c06f6f042fe7e72f3b8b7178babfbcfd579b67cb3e9c040
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11306 11208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012ce8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000144fa.bin
36e5970959974475181c38a09d8e92c7e9618302c76f8b9ce80e59cfc5661e95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144FA 16744 bytes