Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee9a7dd618891c21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-09 20:14:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 21c9cca25e11eb408512c844123fbc7e SHA-1: ee172ddb5b200b87c8b993a29625308bec5b67b1 SHA-256: ee9a7dd618891c21340ff4c933f1e61a56c0afc533fc86d60834333d34eecdc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly indicate a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avengers+movie+chronological+order PDF link annotation
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9vc9656r41vou4ee5sdl5nfhe/lanatinumobuduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/pufibigajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3993a80a1---68451289839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2292077e7296f4a3caf1b90c8ae71339/regugabupugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7ddb71981---94669138998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/ditatezugovemijuwunured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4276d14f189ce3db9ae8253713e2cb/tagikavakolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/781bffcde6a56acf5f31700eace0f43d/80184149734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2b7d7721627e512e52a10ae0f1afa3b/vipewabogegipija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098678fcdf07---11679950639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1keug6ghf4guchh1ept5npa7cq/83614035829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/takeregukovurulotarogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/gumanubexibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac7e592fab8967dab92f0c335a4c77cd/wejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/76276719681.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_off0000f387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF387 5404 bytes
SHA-256: ae026a814ece0f903aa46e56775ec64a9b32ecde47c8396bcbe7ff8d1a45d8ca
font_01_sfnt_off000105c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C5 10856 bytes
SHA-256: d290db296114a75f325637678d3151ab1b0e84caf7c6bb50a513727c12db9848