Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeff08c58eac889c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6e2f1d0c58bdb7c87d39effcf7e181d9 SHA-1: 1bd67cc1969252f3a229555a476777581d4649c2 SHA-256: eeff08c58eac889c6269b773819da5bcd618c8c1edb2d284246bd585a051ee43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, such as WordPress. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or to manipulate search engine rankings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244dd537b095d1122a18fd3e1c2cfff8/16512830784.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/degilufatijefirasub.pdf
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/nanexizivibexije.pdf
    • http://cp-1.ru/userfiles/files/51858498602.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9qs0gvv9fik7pcuj0udok54vv/1440790462.pdf
    • https://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/gewokunejo.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9q6dbudmtj8n7n0v4p7e7k1a4/27489619519.pdf
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d527a77b5d---90648175625.pdf
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/jodideremizopola.pdf
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105112230.pdf
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021061504540684.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7f333358c---rifogagegunaxi.pdf
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87d797e72b3c51a5e4a96f552ac510d0/fapagedim.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021042911194527.pdf
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n160pfgs6tm3vhlkvpvlrhev5/23749348698.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd2638a8d5---74633335640.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dbaec3841---30992531448.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/vizadiguk.pdf
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/kojija.pdf
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/muvifikutodotasisogipa.pdf
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/40034782435.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5b12ad3d5e---53124325533.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf082de547---78319413748.pdf
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/86923794508.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=rs+aggarwal+maths+book+class+10+free+download+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_off0000d63e.bin
215f4814ff40746e212905a6347e5d4f88dea5faa8714b0a615780da37aa3751
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63E 17468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001044a.bin
ef87f21927d395543936fe45154c4703baa2bf2554f255adde2ee9c8c07e7c01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044A 11512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f13.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F13 16792 bytes