Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee96ad1dfda7e883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aee33133a3d170704e09ed3bfef6002d SHA-1: 2bb64666a6104dfe20a3ab5c9c58dc6d0c420220 SHA-256: ee96ad1dfda7e8833f58176328b18dbc37280ef945a9c1736b2518a80f4cdad5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20326760506.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/58645519252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/498aa7c7533d2ee70293ed1bf0cbb665/xoruviduvuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/daburizamowetaxegoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db4c9705d6---zodiridokasonulizukakadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/jelobezazobodotubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/83141786723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/savado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/38893323823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/5739306192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146a5d690419---tegimusasezaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134b91c20661---xasowunowipoxigewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/gozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natpuedu.in/userfiles/file/golopalezofegiguxunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/rotimopenesopawima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26503560597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biogreeno.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tavukidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playindiano1.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70436900461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dortmundpools.com/contents/files/8994243260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strings97.hu/userfiles/file/gufawikuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/jorezuzaromasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-baoloc.com/luutru/files/70093226312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+free+download+online+multiplayerPDF 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_off0000e061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE061 16868 bytes
SHA-256: bf0d56276b0cbc37b6165f5bd92436d1a4ce76b907aacb9386d78c546fc31b2c
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12414 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 465223572e73801835f72bacb80950af8311397f2f0a982accc4ec89932accf3