Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eee54d5ae6dae85e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.3 KB Created: 2021-10-07 00:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 866aa3103618330a2304b9da4e679954 SHA-1: 14715782b02886e90e55a04cd91f1fc12b1cd3c6 SHA-256: eee54d5ae6dae85e55f4ea68ae28b4aa5138b0e848927a253300efc00f84068e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or downloader campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+hoarders+house
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cc910a58636e7de6a1f22b24ca871ef/56526615541.pdf
    • https://www.benkorner.nl/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90546818001.pdf
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/misetinekijibenodi.pdf
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12808919994.pdf
    • https://equimat-cheval.fr/file/21695963446.pdf
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/wuwubopujuluf.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615170c94a31c---88224434233.pdf
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/zefuzujovadejateforit.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/31746553949.pdf
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131364fe6124---silejazujepezuzunivur.pdf
    • https://ppsu.cz/files/file/puzururav.pdf
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64127176687.pdf
    • https://hanakspotrebice.cz/eshop/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15984155445.pdf
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94cb819078296da86cb224f0b00431a5/9808030722.pdf
    • http://patanjali.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sebisatana.pdf
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/43110692520.pdf
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mogajabawebaza.pdf
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/67991604073.pdf
    • http://www.cbs-emballages.com/upload/file/viwepan.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dd7c0de79a---rezufejikirugilumojepes.pdf
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/lofodaje.pdf
    • https://ripedesign.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/93543301607.pdf
    • http://terralis.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/58440320783.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210919124707825.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001a13c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A13C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001b94e.bin
8d0b15c2c7059f7668448028c39128da5fd0c3d9ac575404a24543563064e247
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B94E 21564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001f11c.bin
36ed24c7f66fff80f9623b3e369beb71249de9c9096fb860610aa7819f73c8f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F11C 10084 bytes