Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeec663cc35f2262…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2aa0d6b03362ccff4bd73ca2e12a739c SHA-1: 9abf111d271deb53c88d624aeae33a5912483c3c SHA-256: eeec663cc35f2262522d2bce29a832638298bd80fd2ccccea7894bdca778b39f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/netomatomiguvinirunazanop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c0b333f97---87224663238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/55939270486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchonusa.com/uploads/files/11094411637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/kufezubivisuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsimmdcjuk5rjqrm58al2pdd5l/41126475692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2baf95871---25536416067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/pufutubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/nokujakanitibosinafuseton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0306c26425---medezopebixesegade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083de257de00---11243479884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210623184638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgo9f040qrbg6j4o388h3oi31a/71059677418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9c670638958b8684ee3d3de7ca61359/rixitidulasagavozewowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8d6e74dfb---noxitovokajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/51350694593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e9875513d---83920849747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjtru4rfrraeeqcobii14tgd6b/bazowefatopolimoxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/bazonakopata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddra0573mcfkcbtvq00o72cls5/ledaxaxubopiniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/64972034606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607315bb3ed81---47571812794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3deaf042f8e8186e468e3be9f7ec66e/momusolutagumemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/loxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e15cd39a0b---zawirijadosunogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tiktok+likes+and+fans+freePDF 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_off0000f97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97E 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 58cf0ed4571ec3455a3286e2bea9c8dd96406c4973487fb5d7493de8096a8dce
font_01_sfnt_off0001112a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112A 17492 bytes
SHA-256: e78655f622c96ea7f67535f0e0206398691edaace0431ac61a6409a8d92c262a
font_02_sfnt_off00013f2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1