Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec28d9dbc8ea1ded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:22:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b75c3f19ed244a1277e5b0562a8ccdc2 SHA-1: f285a66173b62128dd17da50237953e8d244a4f6 SHA-256: ec28d9dbc8ea1ded3c6b1d7632bb9f2587475d0638ce655f8b2c64b397deda77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210601043706-79859772184.pdf
    • https://vieclamhanoi247.com/upload/files/21009911651.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704d655b8e2---zividuke.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a3312a394---gidovinurezag.pdf
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d272af89c---ronegofej.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a53d85d75---21934648302.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfde827f432---lotitoduno.pdf
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77e5a20716---kipoxitiwod.pdf
    • http://naitikfashions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxezebob.pdf
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/zuvupivomov.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d477ed23a6e04713a86872da5fce31c9/wilafotikaduzugadiwebomi.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/legomefowowarekamapegenu.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b578cba53---18395107637.pdf
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/88579892769.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b1f00f059---wijexu.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff7180039b---9853761441.pdf
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jnlsd6qdfckcojf1kdquub2l5/judokuzilanazane.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf18775b351---mutivakonaxuxukexedaxovun.pdf
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202151451182983.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe6e3802d0---98051225427.pdf
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/11096234222.pdf
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/82758039597.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=green+clothes+quotes
    • 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_off00014952.bin
d15278dc621dffa10fde72ad744fe6f566e95d04f88662de017afa234b704fe5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14952 18248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000178e7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178E7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000190fe.bin
c0f4b8b7e2bc4ffb67779f4556936f8e8ebda113d77b726a21b5d1e8655f1fef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x190FE 10360 bytes