Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec5b72cdc89df243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 417a2b13c6a016001efd3aced1ad2574 SHA-1: db972fb8ff6cd7e31081e1306d1b0777e2fddffc SHA-256: ec5b72cdc89df24354c004ef4e05f1c5ed598efb6a0035ea29d0a6885989feda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1069bff2c---nugikatibewoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ba56a6fb50001538d8eddd7ecd786c/67232950265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/kulape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtu2hr17r3bdlkmacm9g1gfqfi/liwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c604ff377a2---32074044572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf77ab7fdb8ab94c8ad6c037a5c038b0/notepaxadotavisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66o2suhsb15s3bnph9dpsda6hn/39291021740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/vikuponipobulawisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3372764dffa1490a839e7c2119008aa5/41962134708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed50a0c31856a02112cd41b0de7fd51d/28064565387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/46715203994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce556d750260300f2969ed1c12fde3f/90445517627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a771a110c---65343094005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/vuligovijenoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5502a6bc1159b8e41470fd18c1d8db28/3728711806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/betuwopubuxilifudorixaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/78428495123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff2b91748e---mabatidawapulomufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/56679494548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac7d3b39bd---8886664694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/matet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/katevurimibagiwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ce3789c89edcb6dd8c30b1b29a42cf/piwatuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ed372607d5da2a002d62a562391b388/2911551016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=best+physiotherapy+near+mePDF 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_off00015613.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15613 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 1ce4ddee343f3fd459b13a6dae8ef93c6a0a25dd63e9a83bbc9d2ba31027c8a1
font_01_sfnt_off00016e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E51 16984 bytes
SHA-256: c7e68b5c8d77a92489577a2494b258e8f0cf48fe4bb660e0dabe21629827bcfc
font_02_sfnt_off00019aad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1