Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eac9d6171df20235…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 67e900147802e8936023c5c18120af7b SHA-1: 4f56322a9d87bc5598853be38998b39c1263c95b SHA-256: eac9d6171df20235e240524b90bbdc43a745fa04b33c5264c15cc26f6991552b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple external links and the detection of a trojan indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.sesc-am.com.br/Selecao/ckfinder/files/wutijasutufuzokimeduwus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsgqcr60e09bbnhsdq9mdk5ej6/63090049195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161195533e1140---vowegodadetofumurisewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/zabeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/29901723021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7batgfaednllbfif49ch5hms2/50555446126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9k86esqdm9tqprfetdhp9ju34/sepawisemenizidike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/24886903498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce39efc92784ee72809adc1839281079/37810705973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pmunss6nlpp8jk52hnm20mea6/30965160865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab3219cb52---26907529018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/22848511970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solucionesinmobiliariasavg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/xuwadajixozepodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/71188899561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa087bbd9c15155f3ad96b6c5d1fc019/41543785358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d333e817cf---91395846737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3e95baacd---mazuzopazadupobamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/zepadufejewanegatupanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f2bf4007f---jegilisatapuvijume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0668090c13---36147105986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c1a558822---tasajegewifojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.online/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95166286908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4f4cvmg3nq91at2mfcsch0t2i/lowekabegiragediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=hello+english+teaching+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000d056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD056 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 5f9f6585be396ccbda108e6f9ac1a3724e998d8e459745ddb951864d3016d835
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B7 18000 bytes
SHA-256: e2ad6c3230e967363408fb732e3c402e457997c24e300dbdbed2edbade368fc1