Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec1fc7d17e66905b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:12:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f05141a639beca79f7af21fac43b6932 SHA-1: 5a1b1de7925d3875e920c834256253c673b3c324 SHA-256: ec1fc7d17e66905b646e8fb0aed78dab2ce1f9d0a08af0a5d201c57908cadaa4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, consistent with an advance-fee scam lure. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading a secondary payload, likely a phishing or trojanized document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/senosukijenorerikixuk.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f69c230cd---19384636561.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a4bfc14b2---zarivop.pdf
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/61038078603.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742ce098750---44929757511.pdf
    • http://longthinhphat.net/uploads/files/juxebokukodoru.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c73e59c97c687462d673640402c87897/noraxatosupijezonigabil.pdf
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/kajevaji.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf13100bdd3411372b304f757dcff88/56040764168.pdf
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021051003172823.pdf
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es1okk4neecg4d2nkve0dukub6/52181335007.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d9134bf18---72255818444.pdf
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/92817381588.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/fibuwevazeveb.pdf
    • http://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/rezajonejapa.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a45f28dad---70505716221.pdf
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca8786b8c99ff3b880c2ab760966d80/nazug.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f63e970f7802663bc2b9a184ba2b65af/54402697933.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcca4781859---jigeretivukedaxasozux.pdf
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fabuv.pdf
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/rujam.pdf
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b45d55dd762d95e51d8c7083421422bb/17019939485.pdf
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ash9huf0dbm955c1dlm0l74k82/satavenodoletoja.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/rojixelabemobo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=george+mason+center+for+the+arts
    • 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_off0001d60b.bin
9c5da553cb7d55a5ed930d70c0bda2effaf1226a5e79f886edf9efbafda9de66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D60B 22544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00020ff1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20FF1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00022808.bin
e25a80349735110dceacd397668e9ba83a247eb6cb46cf9e5eb010312dd414ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22808 10684 bytes