Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee978dd30e46f8da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:17:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c733d5db2e037167c934ad41889109d3 SHA-1: ef273c7641a47d2e453bdd88e2971c4391fae564 SHA-256: ee978dd30e46f8da83c19ec5c125cc4465f2f74c5b1c7735aa4864b729d9a54d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, potentially for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cyberpunk+2020+campaign+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/gabojosekuwuwebulana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/tuxafepuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/nujoliwofubusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/61203217428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.info/contents/files/fexizagipoturusipakefuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/43922709651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/zepulud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613819c843b4e---26461149511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/23426314057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/dojatokuduzidoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hansungidschool.com/userfiles/file/75197625223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/kezixuxunabazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/99921894912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markaz-e-durood.com/EditorImages/file/jozipupumelokupetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901210131679353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://illustrations.noche.fr/images/files/60957275288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/bovaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef24adbe909b9285854d5f782a4f373/30867392547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetugebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/vuvebovoxoweboxugijavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/bikoserezozararugezoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mj79pi5v7dgtll8unnd02d9se/1570754657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22051862606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/litemonidakefowululaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210905053010.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fa42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA42 17848 bytes
SHA-256: d9fc5a4e5f5215e6c1ba6806e45e026b7a6c1bc49523ebf732a96c958cdd733d
font_01_sfnt_off000128fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14114 11252 bytes
SHA-256: be8ef67e203a599fbe99f12b5c196d4e2c79db55a61e2fbbaf4109a88c443440

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