Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0cf7ac0d64f131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:57:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 654d431f2b23af164322c5af01ffaae7 SHA-1: c9f7751780121307de02d5640cbed49fbd257723 SHA-256: ec0cf7ac0d64f131d9c59414def029c86b28ee171fb8db2bf55b29123d3d7885
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.001 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and the link farm behavior strongly suggest a malicious redirection or download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=techbigs+among+us+download PDF link annotation
    • http://cu-mbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12065891951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/2715591616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/46080713334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/33251783069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a172ee3de7---48898688117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613495fcbfdaa---rimikejupidelekowezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonimubafokiwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eebdf02b7---1569979727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagodikovamudivokamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gbfrjournal.org/pds/userfiles/files/darovidaxetuxibetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kqcme.yiaiwang.com.cn/upload/files/9461556414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/49971385208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecuriosityshot.com/medafogodelediwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/sotowikowamuxumodazufiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/46092122728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/tagopovozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/92310292049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613452b05ceb9---sosaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139389a94de1---69901012060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/2125262432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/wudutipulisozerupase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs/files/10998927871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133413865368---lijulizoxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89eb80ca03f9d3b09fbef5787b78e673/difiriwetopowezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/210901111614038047cesc0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/pafasisinijif.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_off0000d802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD802 10908 bytes
SHA-256: d0efbc8e51041ce3b85d1514c96b23ec0d5b8c2cb83d96fde01267ed9c5a6f71
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FE 17916 bytes
SHA-256: c738defd0024f412f7f693451a1b25490429b218cecd2c89772565cb16adec0d