Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee94e1f32ec7b60a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:09:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 18083a38e04a0be648ae081c0060f510 SHA-1: 2a42c90d6414b7b0afb5b4c3659f19bd6d7df135 SHA-256: ee94e1f32ec7b60ab9ea564fc52b62dbc38c3f5e779dc7baac69b19c76ba45ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://newo.ru/files/files/riwelif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/tolejelimuxova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuanghuilaw.com/filespath/files/20210909145549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xijutofojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotusmarinevn.com/upload/files/sosalerezizezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/xirojatoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4ddae90768d332feb5aaff0989b649e/farelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3191176adfbe4e14214cc34f3f8bfc05/73658545122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/ronodesofopajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/pavisejali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/notazajofimaxapanozilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/moforadipatowiradudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614026a2795c7---fudivimosogelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/puxudoviwosofepamewepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cudicio.it/images/file/lukadexumojubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casalindasbakery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heorungminhphat.com/luutru/files/70366667827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614016eae0ae4---4360037511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/leloropape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/xalixejibawezomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/semekasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/tupakowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=play+your+android+games+on+pcPDF 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_off0000e4f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F0 17788 bytes
SHA-256: ea56c0c1926463bf03ea1761af82d0bf64f5619c2b19cd7beab94814c7e06b57
font_01_sfnt_off0001125d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A74 10976 bytes
SHA-256: bb162ef547353c7865bf1e5490956c2350faf60954f56caf5c0cea060f71bc01