Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec2adcc45f5af557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 80b22d270dedaaa7f4c7c61b131ce10d SHA-1: 4a39a26095b61f263264aef0657a965fd42891ff SHA-256: ec2adcc45f5af557cbf53885dc4ef2d80e8ddce13815db778611b9a407100b47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure strongly suggest it's used as a lure, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b71e6f52bc4---3561157841.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94efc39126---72128544601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/26423811695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67aebd4ff3d41ce549cfba4fa175756/7156969145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/11987410123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/ropojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/95397627148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5c2ab88be---44650459740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/78690473881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.superior-inkjet.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84314648717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3h9mjl2rc0u7oulakf5c817mj7/nozomakufosajenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rceurtbcopi29de2imm7p4i1k/kipetopizesetavitebogifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221guvclvqkr1b8v2km51r8hf5/tejafufafuvesajiraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/22861348763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a93a65961b29d043ed2c45991d004cd4/xurimexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emenu.hu/editor_up/25332391440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domainecomps.com/documents/files/nizusuporiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46df6005dd12ca2ee09e0a4e12687c5/23597604544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/56844036006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d619681111f---25451338405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/luravokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/kotimuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4deead21ac---63333885710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb415f108e---niwalutezupaxopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/88755371632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mantyobras.com/userfiles/file/gefunuzudarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=brazilian+portuguese+to+english+dictionary+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_off0000de14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE14 19680 bytes
SHA-256: 52d45c6bc0d51fd04eccf3037a91bbba3e66f6bb4c1d17892d4ea0fbc4affdb3
font_01_sfnt_off00011163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11163 11224 bytes
SHA-256: dddcd4540f259ac2b1da59a29498ce0c90266602624f8360f815d9e47b868b70
font_02_sfnt_off00012b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1