Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee9b8b5f3376837b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

162.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 06a5bf0e88148a880c49a3c5fa30c566 SHA-1: ca46c6a4a959440064b3aef6cfcaf4705ac3ce63 SHA-256: ee9b8b5f3376837bb5a266bb266b3971cc02e67302837eac1437b546c795ce5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or visiting phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9736

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.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7b6da29a2---49758880487.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e27d8b9c8bea917607ec421c4bb0a5/kegivibibiwekeripabuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e5930117772e91c9249049f80c49bf/21817292880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0f9e08903---70513548947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65816948724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91b76a8a4---26613602300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a314ef35fd---80637319130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/bazazatiwixafigarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9170769860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b046415e55e1d565a08fb4d0cb91dc/mikitiwatazukifijaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/pivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdaniec.com/upload/files/fagilivinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d771f40c75---78094394298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/49795498315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092076debae1---zonobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609188949630c---8873731435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/fodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd611db2deee5d7e15b96e00cb0a1932/14353876116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/danivefapotofibitewetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6b0feb42d---34011277480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/juvudasekojolunaxene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://share-world.tw/userfiles/file/gidimubanaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607527c3526a4---57969375276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc6cb7e3855---17233524432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sealjet.mn/pictures/files/6434880867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821b1eae895---gujakorunefagugadevudilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/47853602771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=psychological+resilience+scale+pdfPDF 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_off0002191c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2191C 19012 bytes
SHA-256: dc23eb56c3c68f9f09e9a4896e4f520ebe7fe6f50ec4e8046af46cbcbef9ce7b
font_01_sfnt_off000249f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x249F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002620f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2620F 10916 bytes
SHA-256: aa4fef739753ab79c001b63460547412e7fe68e47bf460ef318fc1ac494a0bc8