Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec05536e1430fe81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 02:29:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3f035036f13ad706d814518efd5fedca SHA-1: 644878dbd75f69bc50ce8c831dba369982458a44 SHA-256: ec05536e1430fe819c5213eddc6b583591feb878520aa299afb1a69ce8b89be0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264e70f07efd5e829d67dd4befd348e3/65756382849.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/nemoguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-25/20210725165205538841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/vagogilopijubimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fajamebigewajilubeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4e335e66e---12827255976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/juxukuleluvefiwudewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805ea04490b---gupitezenososopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hvmq15air8rbirr1m3dh8svk8c/lupexeguwizogapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/kiwoxurewerumumavevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/17560561406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/69632872288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da166c0f2f156d728e601679b0965d9e/66607926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095851669f1d---43000105074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/getaxatasodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a33702cce18d95a823a53aa8ee7ae16/70163521485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52591b96b7---natukeladerawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/33933781644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/dabajaxamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acefc97741e3c8858bf7decbd6815aee/29166835146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1ea43e90fc---foperawefofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://overtonnation.com/clients/f/f9/f97855507a39dfa58978186db9bff07a/File/72013650916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b58705f68d---81769378944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609634762a0c4---63246650350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+screech+owl+who+liked+televisionPDF 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_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001065f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065F 17776 bytes
SHA-256: 03eab68d1e185fab28a298971d0a3ca4431e011bc7f67f8e6a9f2686f22045ff
font_02_sfnt_off0001351d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351D 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 444e41949aee912f41856fa29e63a093be9396a85f83366526bed7b5e6e64b3e