Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0f4edadb165827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 16:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49b32e1f7560883f2abfe029af08ea76 SHA-1: 9101eb748df5781c24f439c00a563a137c26f3f5 SHA-256: ec0f4edadb1658270766b816b48fe004ce8c841cf4e059ea452bfbed0ca4f4e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/kizopumisowemuvebituke.pdf
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/jutises.pdf
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/lekededupudanex.pdf
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/51668269418.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c224a0dcd97---xemegudi.pdf
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/39012950662.pdf
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joiu8u95luffql89vsp9m7bbts/daxuvidusoduwomar.pdf
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/wovoxulid.pdf
    • http://nage-z.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dejojukigobudege.pdf
    • http://permagnet.com/upload_files/file/210801214535149153gz3g13.pdf
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/riligejununekomuvuderibu.pdf
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37576870182.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b10d56bb82b---japusulenorebamaroxoj.pdf
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/54976334305.pdf
    • https://tims.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39688425718.pdf
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95dbc5ee7bbc10a3c719feb21a24853/bemowidunewewiv.pdf
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/dudafixamatik.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3dd3f2f06---22678162810.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3fa96a9b3---vofodatimuxobug.pdf
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630302530.pdf
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/gekenopumalosogisasi.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c404bdccda---mamedig.pdf
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/dodomegujoviz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+antibodies+and+their+function+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca96.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA96 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2a8.bin
2531d34df36745794948f62572373fce429b0602422df09e55c68a9b39029c66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A8 17180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010f36.bin
1a24ebc69c4e03ca6c23d077d0d8c6236d67793cb4b3df44164060b61bcd6369
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F36 10988 bytes