Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec23e16ee2c89b02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 049fa85d8d21341cd926256c84ffb9b0 SHA-1: 37a93bef03692178dc91cb17ea09bec924acdabb SHA-256: ec23e16ee2c89b0253b97f278ea5704290e9e4c9202ab530a69b3099998996c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive use of external URLs and the nature of the heuristic firings point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pick+4+evening+results
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3524cc1bc693f8acf641da19cd092c53/sisagazapimapedupin.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/34880900479.pdf
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/77932577948.pdf
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/41466646268.pdf
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/76756559777.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2c337cea1---61353306683.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a21db70562ee16cbb612740a36c99f4b/momukirokebozezedo.pdf
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/27542814558.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45af72bf4a---16645389499.pdf
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75a9d14991b80afcb9c07d24468302ad/tagimubufukeliruk.pdf
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/potabemiruwiwanofoka.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e975d16941---84101539893.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722724095f8---dejanafibado.pdf
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/32933153679.pdf
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/zetibakivebekuge.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b319bf13b3e---65696235310.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/36506930877.pdf
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092607f608d7---jebimidu.pdf
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa318597bce---41550140040.pdf
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3343163235.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c435fcb6a89---zefuviri.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e603c2c911---39012807638.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c176169ae898452a1accb43ac1c2086/30943366249.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ba5400326---80715228061.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_off0001e10e.bin
b53d8d9107a8192799d04047c4ab8e0d81469a368648d04ff518232a845ca88c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E10E 17196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00020dfb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20DFB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00022612.bin
34f49c89fd5b70731b18c38d4f28a72628147d2cccfb9b6d95fe8ae9daad4421
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22612 10460 bytes