Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec17d09be5b652e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 16:41:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 47e436e65b8d4618b1827c15b02cd1f5 SHA-1: e2881716d8f93bf24fa244845bcdf39920b116be SHA-256: ec17d09be5b652e17699c0c7f0b736282297b5d89c5eb5891d9851b1ccb7ea81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection results point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ajansnigde.com/resimler/files/nopiziwogiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8l5i8hd1d7b6ic8mm7lffhtajc/bekezudefawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1fe6e1454---pevixakuzekunovelijabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a147b9e4f90---3620170651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.pro/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/refivewovupejoparozobenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7c2e6edfe8---65197888985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2bj2p4ahu4d2o7ree1g4kmiv8/90571752985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dba6417b21---85466198878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/kusatibobanazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/timarimewadabigiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a14a62841---11596661311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/vudawivulododasolesijezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b87b4554203251cdce9e98af3988fab9/14773126458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa2fea14f6---52416674479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc66774d90302fb8b3323cc6178c11c/melisalatobako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifewasanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/29707412935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quinta.cl/upload/files/tikawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1f79be38e---74685051447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092099bbb38e---nifabemopudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/1103163169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodebiaggi.eu/userfiles/files/zarumutil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0daf18dd82de539f6327388be5ee484b/seninovolarixuvamega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/milomipelexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3882e683b4---fimofakekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/48765946620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+meaning+of+company+product+mixPDF 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_off0000ef15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF15 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 378616fc28a8d3643864820f44d386f71d539b8e0dc938f4628c61646d44e025
font_01_sfnt_off00010966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10966 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1147dc51e7fba607cc2d916eb350aadfa6e82e6c44422a8e94bd512fa5d262
font_02_sfnt_off00013460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13460 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1