Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec2cf95f84315396…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:48:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9b0b97a2c202c654614262d7a7229226 SHA-1: 5b124e7b78ca18951d51a3189d50c27b9b7868c7 SHA-256: ec2cf95f84315396950bb2f4551f79d1322bcc10124b74799992c4455dccabde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a link farm to direct users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67d268625c656e34baa8423fb69073f/tosopur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093063b89ee2---77607957024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/gudukofibinazukofivekoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/dovatelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba2cc6d13a0c959fb3e2b1342bf14c51/laserodarawifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edsmithestate.com/clients/8/8f/8fcea3baa00381bb68ca4dcda22eb4c7/File/nawerudilakometimagokubik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce19b7f3fe1019260f7a846fd18c769b/votetigunivevarupetigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fdabba4ba---72123663871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f852cb85a---jifeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/vajapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90720186169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/gugaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79be89014bd16014f132f99b1c20a617/48543961574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki83vkl3ogka9c9nuh6c1ed9a8/25438048259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d69d42f4be---fijogoloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqa1dv4rmtu0ga7klje8nhe193/12596738985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085196c96c83---11102368703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/zapiwuxotakojivegatita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/92486684362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8923efbe13686fa3fabb1f2a0e3012e/40107532000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d84d0281f199dcf5c594846ed9159ff/xelusokumawatiluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc341bda5f6f81b1e52ea82e097b3e6/fiwemawobawemibetisidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c425822f815---73727660008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/gazodibakovuwogozono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1bnmvj2rrgfeqveo11ol6mrje/faderikijuwesure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f35cfdcfedea5c358404b74f6e35b3e/96644677116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mis+for+marketingPDF 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_off0000bf98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF98 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 4ed67b894a71747b067a93836c937547000b621c1c301ccf20a9f4c5201184ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEC 15032 bytes
SHA-256: 6041007b07ec22b4f43db2d74c72bcf85d6f38695fdec86e78596c40b7e4880e