Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eed6fe6f39f2fb7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:51:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 292b9c90dd6eb736706b1803cab1aee7 SHA-1: b24f135f72e114b4dad93eef90e185486befe1cc SHA-256: eed6fe6f39f2fb7f7941967cb89df00e11ce6d1f300bd927c76c5a63700d3f58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.urbanwaterways.info/files/kowizobe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5m54okiu5b89mnvcgtl17sqm7/67117851682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mqj4obh8s7k62j3us1s3vpqpl/vusojazekabumoxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06c2fec56040cae58acf4b862ff1c950/gaxadujapatokoritixipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/89700738383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3107e95f2---60193453337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/wuvalesezowegupukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/zorurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diacritic.org/travel/app/webroot/img/files/53015176670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acf8dbc15f9c22b519974c067bf950e9/42136527189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20gv6uthg5nr61vabqq2kghv92/88217303072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chungangroup.com/uploads/files/202108230908588128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/gazezaxanesemoteguxujona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35ed2842c19762a05f177bc3f26e817/gizorediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcucaytrong.com/images/files/39843635202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021080102521427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12197277274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d8f0b8d43---62847664482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efdb9c6440---mivepuxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/26126708027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca92e0efae---pokodopuxapurataji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/26772600507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7187dd4f02deba923827a8bc70d8d67f/16445774771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/74333878389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096afdb56bfb51fb916fd7ff4119a565/duwugajugujopokopari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72837626547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+earth%27s+layers+foldable+worksheetPDF 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_off0000d1b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B5 18208 bytes
SHA-256: c56c94e07f0955a8116b03114ca1ee5be451db7eae18b56368f538563ce49f5f
font_01_sfnt_off000100eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EB 10684 bytes
SHA-256: a3933ee1f8a382c45ad25d5721a3cdcee56f60c929cf2f129a103fe3ef57108e
font_02_sfnt_off000119b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1