Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eee2d8dae7c6da28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-07-26 02:38:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e3dc51563b2689210a500d33abd168c6 SHA-1: a93fe57f0a537ad5f7694aca746901f99fa334bd SHA-256: eee2d8dae7c6da28133ea66a7dde0c8cd3c94231ad4fe5f24ee18d50c8a62204
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm structure suggest an attempt to exploit user trust through indirect redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eebavvjmlsq0h804r31a24oqad/71042722749.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725678c834a---38348149883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c970eb9e30e---sexijadetonosere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0roigeakakr2g0thto50gct7c3/julodunibepobesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb754b9190---nupikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/linifubikulovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/14604943182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a2f75985b---kejutaxefipoxonizorirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/13316979513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/jolapelelejenosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89620062514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31f5b058a6---polirakumuwasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f79f0dca3ad92651ca2395a94a04ce53/xikufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/bejukumaravugepofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/wokodagilufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/fizalukovetarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d044bb0e18c---15370862299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/37199880091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raroxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085568c7c9fb---30838430941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daffb2a4a3b336540d7d6ce085be101c/65017861579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/vulaxusifubajekagiraxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=le%C3%A7on+sym%C3%A9trie+axiale+cm1PDF 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_off0000c98e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC98E 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 69a42e0ff68faf7f3a241678aabe6025113dda3a650f9ef78945e460d82d90d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FC 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 9ff823171694574a1060bc2874afc75f1db3901817607e67f98d79a7d971417b
font_02_sfnt_off00010eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1