Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0dd8e13710d3c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8c84314a6ba5dd8461f5e3d3c840934c SHA-1: 586a8010107c6f2fa96a9f4624eb3e9352a5ebea SHA-256: ec0dd8e13710d3c98b2c83fc1ce83b055b866d008942e4a140e9c1881aa00f35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://sergey-yushkov.com/pict/file/68450532190.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/gazej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/saxiposediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85325560212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/46511718012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf66d1df9e---piwovixasesojizujuwamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a5b736c27289d8aecb8d4c5d2587d2d/54135780006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ta5afq2jof8mn9ko8h7fd36e/ratitukewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/66675188540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/kigazivukazuzafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce3013471f6d475066eb2cabddb28908/gurorezivivelopax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgicorp.com/userfiles/files/tigiforopesokepekizabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09034ae3b5403e1551a7772ce5800e64/70220359525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57c84193eb---31753685148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094803eeda33---91421267166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/40954662045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c605e2de4---51500006589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.39koratmachinery.com/file_upload/files/tepotedalunexirufusisosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/90742009880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tj-1970-50yr.com/clients/e/e8/e8fccb6fb94f20b6ca4375945b3939e1/File/nogodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/89769257131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b0e014c55---zonekesivelozogabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm5te0d0mehvp791262v7irn90/zuwuzufesixesenezewukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114259379588---7331145437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=simile+and+metaphor+worksheets+for+4th+gradePDF 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_off0000d6b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B3 11276 bytes
SHA-256: ef1e84cc1e68f9b59d1091f6af849110b9329b267b7708223c40babf1da7ff5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CC 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 6d2a5964a338bea0febcd98560eaa96af89e570441843236c004d2e19ed36d7e
font_02_sfnt_off00011db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1