Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee871ab94a6386bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 11:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5aae05b9a2e7503e678160328d6713c2 SHA-1: aa875a11e12781648af31f33005e5aaeaa427cb0 SHA-256: ee871ab94a6386bce6dd54dbd647d783d1683bac54faabf69b4c0269d4bd9b0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a search term that could be used to attract victims to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=miles+morales+gay+in+comics PDF link annotation
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608715a76ad91---94526279126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901ecc33e64---pugukiwuwukatunomeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775ef09dfba---89673363495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2nrivio1v3vb5biapj4kbqkcir/kosetuxiwetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/86486411743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18oq8lhgf9mb2v09aqk30lr1f/jemilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36390cbeb952f057881abe4e70b6ada0/vamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0bf222a4fc24abfa37b0bb215eb1a59/83220907244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/laxawekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cab8bcc94d---kavukamivudavatupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/bolezixexegorovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/tazevatamuxumuvesutafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcudulkqaoo7u641jbc6m0vgh4/nokojizulisuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9ngpd14fsvjhc2alt7rrb8a8h/xibobitorije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/zuxepigogerafogisekojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608358bace9f2---47306187729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9ED 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 106eee46917e78acd8030664104f2220c917bcf97623fbed4fedd084ca57826e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAF 11004 bytes
SHA-256: a852dce4a6c20ab14f23701a9eab9f94e03e2593fc3a0e16a05727b3783b7e0b