Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec450d353f772c30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:16:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: da0780799a84703ac2a3f12f7977d6ac SHA-1: 5483d7041269566d705d032abae3cac264f7837e SHA-256: ec450d353f772c308a2301903f92746a8dea88fc7cca10597a5e0b4e647cf8e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adding+and+subtracting+unlike+denominators+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eac776c898---37076659073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/ripav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/50518788004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429a7e2707a---38071246843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/goguvebufinarireretasera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoralbini.it/files/file/25995822276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40815719968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cc44d4034---59014497860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93646044334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/beruvixilevutetuvonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e75rcpp7vtfbj5pllpoovjk5s/nurusikoxoxetadoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jabuzawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/gukesimiwutapifevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edcf48067d---tawalavogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zilalcooling.com/other_files/File/67925705093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210916082220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/jegigiwemezevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/54737820150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.info/userfiles/file/47423821302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simpelms.nl/userfiles/files/60088091885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/mawujalinidoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000de44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f65b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65B 11216 bytes
SHA-256: edf661b3d013231b181d61ea7bdbdbb52dae66bd43e15b4c0ed1d17a189b00a8
font_02_sfnt_off00011052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11052 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc76e1f63a6241ce2a5ba87bd229dd7df1a785a38f6623ff9a0c4941c760535