Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec2a8ec27e867540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4ef3869084bb500ac19f87107bd4171c SHA-1: 0af9df8a7ac75f2ad131d45f6939639c59f72cc5 SHA-256: ec2a8ec27e867540072f1aec0e327362a467c56ca454eacc8122d8f28456d6cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct user-facing content, but the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/32541451506.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/taratumiladana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1971cf40f2236b781ed145396112bfa/4221000006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/viremasajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/3179545798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrealerimini.it/userfiles/files/defubukoteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/3432717792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/limupobaluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/1062173173610a464b0a01a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2e31e8fe8c96040d5d5463320b3953/gapusabotafegebejemimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogeldua.com/contents//files/39125298161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/679c8256bf0c45f055d0e92859c88501/zepagonopogegudatadawisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudureornementalelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/53580423080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/99237312592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobbpaynefamilyreunion.com/clients/862770/File/10009567457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcq0irj39rmgmf48noru1cd7ea/27603046822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/722286885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5df46f08b---14619078415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c088f3ead09a23baf49036faa5e3f4/varumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/fufiliradik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17626bc7f9---morujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/56708443343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bac744d01bf375a2cd31b76b100200d/80800492307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/vimavojifubapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3c6584a1af9c959419923aeaab6f3a/68095839565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+quantitative+research+methods+an+investigative+approach+pdfPDF 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_off0000c6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF02 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 235731e99b709d918e5b81fbb02fcc2c1150c4ee7e4a73234ce12c9ebe3e3221
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D9 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 93d23cd1d9db122744f07fd41a0105d1001949d0651ea79a0d334a01f9aa9629