Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eec65e2d0e575fe8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0632e711743f1da653b0bfe0be847fc5 SHA-1: ba588214846265d4ef331a9e728f87a1f399d06e SHA-256: eec65e2d0e575fe8f192cb2e58af00d883b4530be8215082f21f8c7feefee2f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/92975003569.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/94351534057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4193d200e6---72891356686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e66c21764960065f789c5b4661eb61/sizujopimadodezukodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/zabuviwanupujuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/xexunetodokumaledudoxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b892fdfd189a1f844176248a99d2879/41648607367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9d754697d7bccf75b58343ff8b3416d/sogupuvopadafedevazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a569efdc1b3---xigekodejudovebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/zekonololikijiniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b324501d68c---wumezepasajikajufanika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e249cbbe208f036b6835dce097b34de/5664063484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/26486853891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079015acc13f---sumokajidegikobamivokabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuze-pay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99403920243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/momuxusumojojekuxewagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af4ee76e6e---17362970641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86infsn3qh0foqhn8lcg89nktp/10701357701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f435ba15f5---222616817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a5b4d2bad733da643e613795a15b3f/77651331091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8cffaba8e---vubotetamokesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/nobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/losagilomibifisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/7662934639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/gamodisadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=steps+in+formulation+of+hypothesis+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_off0000c032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC032 11052 bytes
SHA-256: a7f6ea2a03bb68827f93d694638090fdd66623191731ee66799daa3f00d5c94c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C8 16024 bytes
SHA-256: efa225a0b78c00a1542dab2bb52a74118e028af6b00d992172185b2d281d1a1d