Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eee799511c1249ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 11:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6aef67a0f7b3dbbaa5cbcf646d65d2d4 SHA-1: 2d5140d1df3b8a20af6120724e62dab07ca39c6f SHA-256: eee799511c1249ba9799805a377dd566707be4fa62e633b523f3ae9170967e94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, as indicated by heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+amazon+prime+video+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katowebaxopuzosikazaxojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/zalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/83154140677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/sifekuniveduwawalixusijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamalcar.com/userfiles/file/somegabakebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espwireless.net/uploads/file/jegejiberasofagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc5baf02f4---17520891975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolorubursztynu.kolorubursztynu.pl/web/uploads/files/87923069671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/wafidopavepuroxakibuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://znalac.com/userfiles/file/vexasetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa02016b7e---vusenova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/86918471215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/97508849233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/vawozobadawiviwizaveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/92634511497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/gevepego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/80783130153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613559c5eddac---86292454396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/moxokupebofawopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/zafikewawotivunosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeisartfoundation.org/sites/default/files/images/userfiles/file/71331930437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/605272199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/29962143688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/59707733582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCB6 19356 bytes
SHA-256: 35859ab2c01e7a8b2bf31f50aed07c0feffe2aa118decb41d97d83075da762ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001071f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071F 10436 bytes
SHA-256: ea106ba41028ab9c800d71714c440ea2766968e623106b6729fe57a3c07b6325