Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eee972978e7643e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5412598d4e5cda40cb95885df320a858 SHA-1: 11367e1179a802b5a0751ce1b5aed54aeaf4a815 SHA-256: eee972978e7643e9f4c06872a0782715613abe12ab0d684e09ab0df174b1f2cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hide+free+fire+app PDF link annotation
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/jofijilikaxolozavenebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99166997029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2db8e041f1050afe00af7458b7d40d90/87650039176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/wupofexexitimuwalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmedcentralplus.com/userfiles/file/77240849094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/7676982522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42624400438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/pizija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136269c89873---nakimikusutuviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-baby.ru/userfiles/file/tekovilisutidiber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145a80074daf---melijiximewevajudababe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/30600808636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/38330981606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386efb9d858---rilefoxires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f5398277e5347d01991e0ba5e4cb2b/kafepaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/fuxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labellebeaute.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tawesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/68296350085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aifimm.it/admin/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobulotubajaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areopag.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/43008902578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/tevonanaz.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_off0000d48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC9F 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef8c28eb09bd23f6297c746ff47ec623ad173de0205771553e443db03dcb075
font_02_sfnt_off000119a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A3 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 45db953eb306921c2017133aca591be0712297424dbfd2551c351538be3c6648