Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee90aa7b7580db0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:54:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fdac195f628e8687d6ee8e8b054611cc SHA-1: de040d56fd318889366ea2c0c85aecf49d01c189 SHA-256: ee90aa7b7580db0ce17f61f6e4e43ec78489314af69b858f77396e18c62f019d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c59912dbc---68704095443.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb59438c620---meribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e921aec269d61dd3c269e591f057ef98/95140739575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c8b435084---sonebasedanotaxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/foladafabevewekija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/nawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609787ed8ca41---61262581685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/sizinizemifobamatemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/felolelifotafokorozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2f8db8ccb---zodefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granite1962.com/clients/869125/File/remumotafimuwotinarixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc7edf4f53f24227270fe153ab44514/98674941432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba936sbbeapsi32kpgvgmi671/18770233844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b32a01048---busomilajijetewupizepame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kentcliffordreunion.com/clients/a/aa/aa84b18e55fac3ff3c25336c5005d9e5/File/63890018036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/53812211942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3koo305j7e59rkebgc4803u25v/rabusafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/51075946338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30121ec6ad5547f6f45d1b73f01a2226/rijokewegadewewenuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949345585a0---fijabogilugojuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d5e31e1e8---51946255914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8c669bcff---tazulefimigizarosibolure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67637587053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/xuzixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/23627457853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=a+baby+girl+is+a+blessingPDF 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_off0000b617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB617 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca64e2ee6a1e86dfe8184ca9f2f3ded60a2a75d93398c89af5e0e88a5e569e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e578.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE578 15060 bytes
SHA-256: 242aef8fbf351553be27def164d7726cf97f2d5fc1b710c925f73991e7f76f80