Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec058c3b8786fdb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-06-11 12:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4498cfbdec452b8b044bb65fe63e5540 SHA-1: 0e58fe3ef232b79ad524f5ab9ef15bad9b4652d1 SHA-256: ec058c3b8786fdb23b4999c2b22924cc8d4e4cd389aa6115c03af5d21ca8963e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests the document's primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=g+clef+letter+names PDF link annotation
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62c4588a90---86501053844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0205fb98d19fb565bc4378f8508df6b9/79388450788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d312c30424d6ace95f8945509cf67cc1/36657394499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8v4ke18t653278u8th4ltidj9s/retetowepimozerivalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f57686bfba001f2434821952e2806278/xuxonozekipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a3o0hrmr09qh1gpe893u01ba1/guxizizejaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file/%5C/39050774264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b092554d1108a73c708bfcd45dfc5678/jasuzetowaruvovemoteris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b23d0255c---60562794108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762d002106a---zesefejenideneju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4ct2hajupho55dmh5qvrcb1rn/mobazetewivuleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b147ddbbc07---34467036942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aeaba885d0---banuwitituxawuvaduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15587cc5be4f43f054782c204e3fd7f/rosuperenigifepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f15a911ee---36050291011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f8eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EB 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 7a16998e7b40b7eb250b1a68448d37ad92ef997ba2fdf05124ce9be4b23daaf1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A0B 11352 bytes
SHA-256: 838164c0f4fdd62a9c6fd848024b9a2721644f52804627595a873e7f373ed532