Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec69e0b88fdcac66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bc572eb894ceee7032ee4b2a9ddf54db SHA-1: d14d0fa0c47c84264847060010bd034bcd059928 SHA-256: ec69e0b88fdcac669802fd4465060bdb1660952e3210cd261470f044ef437429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or malware downloads. The presence of external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads indicates a clear intent to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+sample+size+using+the+range+rule+of+thumb+to+estimate+sigma
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/domadezofivigu.pdf
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/35784001030.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/878cd085f6a36ff2ce6cb43cd5ed807b/dubetanepu.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e0e484ae5821ea43d60361cb9d8305f/wovozomufezaxotovafoxi.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db97caf8c1fb048b031b437f81ccfc65/6335094885.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f7e870569670f813bc652dc280283f/30075733527.pdf
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0e924d4f5596e196787da33b2b5966/21952041397.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5kthfnitm65kilug550injpo1/13816792447.pdf
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masinatigejabemef.pdf
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/69026185870.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f62b57fa9---31721060934.pdf
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210610024435_kl8dmg.pdf
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/bidiralivimimogabigamek.pdf
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edaab786dace95fc8535029c81d5e2c/fikinodibekanudirexixiwam.pdf
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/99816127477.pdf
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/pubadupexatibitopav.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/60103251448.pdf
    • https://alajuusa.eemedia/contents/file/fajirizejiposuxiwas.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944294e05f0---44217663567.pdf
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/nitedivipi.pdf
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/zakarixaxusa.pdf
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27ada5bbbb---govoxekubapulevasopef.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb26e9872f---65019064785.pdf
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/misinaxajini.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105d1.bin
3109ddebd81c18ea5887a293adf66df6aeffa952337d944e01cfc8869002e515
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D1 19224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013987.bin
325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13987 16084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014eb3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EB3 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000166ca.bin
0ec7a95dbf93b67371413f710ee6e4ef0d2ebd3713203b50a5ab2da327e8afda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166CA 11220 bytes