Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2ee30b50966ebc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 03:21:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 79dc6016b0915e3012ae49f110fe811a SHA-1: 7c30a5d52e25d74e6ce4a2a836f45567f290c3ec SHA-256: f2ee30b50966ebc826a8ac5f0b90c34f62e3582562cd5c0a9e1c847346af122b
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. The file contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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=how+to+solve+algebra+problems+step+by+step PDF link annotation
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/vuzuzojoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotufikigovidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/8819445956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/mulezetom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/kowutegitoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/99145795858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/336860e18230bf7245c2fbfb51a8d97d/nasajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073beda78453---15791343559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/44138985794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fb6a0b5e0---7975746221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16051d471e---11561313433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/tuwejiwusagibotudupozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melinterior.ru/userfiles/files/lakopofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/wopurosipepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/gurinepazefopiwujedipodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/16997783782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/wunopaxixepuxubajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/sapovimububada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/rupotutofezubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/wefetarubonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/mirirumeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/nisameb.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_off0000f0b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B6 10796 bytes
SHA-256: a417d52de32e18699c32ac9fc15354a79fb4e52e4515432b677669a273f6a080
font_01_sfnt_off0001097a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097A 17380 bytes
SHA-256: fe746ead637c35fb6b1be1094bfd5630d8839057dc5e45ff43cbe114b0e39f71
font_02_sfnt_off000136fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1