Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec6061b3e531049e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 11:49:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f25f027e607f1b717f647f805a2404f7 SHA-1: 73687bb45b64c17a99d497dc18f95ae7266ac318 SHA-256: ec6061b3e531049e8a6c91ffce256086cdfb36295562faa17ca62fe6dbfb9bee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/59133033872.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/userfiles/fichiers/fojepubomatotomoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/sofavuduvofujukadugapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8328261850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161356ee76a10f---14042785712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/37048314489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14357140930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoraccessories.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/kopobitefisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/67864983840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ef8648df3da9b03f3d006b8f0131c8/pifubanomuvutaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/29922354501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/12298585559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caerulumpharma.com/upload/files/7739011381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnv6ot837nlcidh5hsabtl694u/riniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5528d625329d1ba039840794e53b9923/57796284706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/47795724764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1631232240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aadcnfgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/66309487269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55780773614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/16384277676148b81c0ea79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/foxafapanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.c-zentrix.com/ALCC/mail_attachments/multitenant-ws-01/1/1630780010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/fuzikikedimifubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=key+cutting+sydney+cbdPDF 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_off0000d60d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD60D 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 39c407346367115049720bf0bee9de174e656030f100b4e98e6db4a8f49b9046
font_01_sfnt_off00010441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10441 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C58 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 457e281b0f61f9f95434f4cba5a9f80d027b8d495d42e2bded2097ad49ce36fa