Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eee40c54fbed193b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 13d60d521c0615db5a691b79ee23d191 SHA-1: b09b3355b721de4407f2a455aafbfd95c4caea14 SHA-256: eee40c54fbed193b9e55501a4e0f8fba81e4723146638b4c6fed4974cf0db80f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or phishing. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to distribute malicious or compromised URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 https://andrejc.si/files/file/22856088171.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70062798827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurea.se/currency/userfiles/file/vevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202106280536404731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/wanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b28c017daf---84579050321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads//files/202108130650287697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/vafigibenisebabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r79eb6s9c48ip621llk4can2vn/nakijakawovuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/81540333231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/43004197655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/lusefatabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/slv10inj92vnvb9j8rkngd2d1j/51784177267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/barepekabopavanarijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/94255035408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2cb03af31---80561726788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c583846cca---debiguterow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alr6dhm092ggakmtrmtack2kp5/tolakusubirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/zezinaveliresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/39213584570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-himki.ru/upload_picture/file/8460605131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokupakadevifujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7b54ab42c---nesejokudivata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/41154586511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/vexilopibagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b152fd734e8---fafosajuzikuruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=there+is+there+are+some+any+test+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_off0000c00e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC00E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD820 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 48d8e8cfca77e71a529d65d68cabee8b6600a6af34fefd0b087832c2c6a0b33c
font_02_sfnt_off000103aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AA 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7b8672c1a7d503d06db997ef2cdf282f864b13dbd05d5cf5dcc6407730dfac6f