Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec532dfa7a471c97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:16:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b05770d9578b8bc97e2a3a0118cb4ab3 SHA-1: d53c8234e19972f953927ec4cf88ea32a4a992d6 SHA-256: ec532dfa7a471c977413f26f0cf33bbe252ecd1b4a0b8def8c0f3522f09e9124
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/wuvuzuxafefed.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/51874157428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/27650029089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2m4bf45oef3ifgrtmic8kf9k9k/49687200728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/goxofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/82030503510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/78380217655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/gazovurera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/25198938542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebossa.pl/files/file/54987317134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f2be048a57---xilimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.painters-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/movevumavisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itps-group.com/uploadfiles/file/vutixufozeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0elhmc0pl1gk52f6aj7hoe91c5/17071050334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aporpeter.ro/userfiles/file/kurojovilafamajaboxitajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131143101075---49400072130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161417b4e4fea9---gerajivosogifuzotinigofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubiwexanesoguwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/tinededonewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gudupiduwowuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/12774300489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarm.pl/userfiles/file/mufozifuxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365vol12ajv5srrhmf76io0ock/fubagatetuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derya.afmiletisimajansi.info/resimler/files/14410304180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/xewudekizozaxidipakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=turn+off+compatibility+mode+chromePDF 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_off0000dbfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFE 19700 bytes
SHA-256: dce5603e23002589f29d894d11be321db75977cfd4fe912cdd6ff351f75c5679
font_01_sfnt_off00010f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F16 11036 bytes
SHA-256: b312f6bcc532eed778a57c9bc2ba596c5c0eda024423a238cf35a155fc90bb76
font_02_sfnt_off0001285c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1285C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1