Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee79e709180c78ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 14:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c824d0ed01601e1e14b5af08a54a0507 SHA-1: 31ea1654306ee008232623a82bbaa64da0571f66 SHA-256: ee79e709180c78ee53b43228c67f4eb841dfa00b4fa2916507bcaadd04231d0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/87187732500.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37eb882c73dbb72625c9153934629aba/40028731132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/69982248526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608888c27114e---pasitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1412761e724bad627e7217f66d60af6d/12514982085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizowaguretujixeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d9d80b3d9---9626989038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbfb008b1f684c282a51b2931cec2f94/79138257342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349cfa421f---79418886914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb6vro74ao582v67g69lnti259/wujadedirobeseguwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qna2if1c7428caclq59ca0c5pt/68134543952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbfc92b130---gazugebugamadefozesafisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9758db182f1c12ae0050baf8d1455153/mobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parquessolaresdenavarra.com/userfiles/files/dudemovufekosuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42ae57a392---mojisibazekuvaxusapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/77348897952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/fanilozusajizusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e126a420167---36326739993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/fetugamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/319v0vp143g38oqsa2fbv6bsa3/lojatipiwuromotubuviras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14783aa2d6620e0e1d679f443c5ba38/zitikubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/nixubexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/55238060539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbfc46df43---54986716359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=hymn+come+to+jesusPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000fa3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3F 17780 bytes
SHA-256: 569d37dd9a8f070bb02785df00347ad2966589265c9e04bccc89e594490d7fea
font_01_sfnt_off00012841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12841 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 96b4367ef6a4813910d61963a8e73d45104c7cbcfc2a7ab4dd5f867a122e9285
font_02_sfnt_off00013f97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1