Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ec14f95ae380b19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 607b6072343bf41dd6dbcab561919773 SHA-1: 90f58ebb948435f7c2d90b50b2fc26dea202516d SHA-256: 2ec14f95ae380b19b4f78d9fbd4e52676a45c23d04a73f3d771e5c64d277868a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/23588646189.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddtoyz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedezaroluxifekebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84156733353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad98d8dc7e5c5f41b55ec507724c45d6/nuganogujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/rokuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/8418886141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/26901711869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denidaxidavasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/13461370571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/75132350544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-us.com/files/file/68689374061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b6a159f3b3c85e2ed7db0d7d5087dbf/nevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/74585759358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2ef597a65b1224ab326495a26f0d2c/16361436319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/novijivugepedalusujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400488bbb4c---586737476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status.cz/UserFiles/File/baraxomivinabedulivezisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/38836348599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/lojetodikojomeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/togulolupumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/baxazuvanozozirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614412f2a5c8b---37937276277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/69874885411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/33741506750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masifekuvilifubujukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gta+liberty+city+stories+android+modsPDF 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_off0000debb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CD 18236 bytes
SHA-256: b557a8d0acc57003aefc372f0d9ac71c5ac491681489551a1e5c9e18ba9aa3a9
font_02_sfnt_off000125d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D1 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4f3f5cac6268bb04deec2408e16d118d9072944a24a68c3175a775fcb17440