Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec6b75e7a23f60f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:02:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 36e6ed18f51454272af0ccc9e42c303f SHA-1: b1f1d7c9bff4dbdc9b274f42a5f08063c024ec18 SHA-256: ec6b75e7a23f60f79d7d87d9ded5bbb7cfa0006e3f194de2a7703ceae1dfa619
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

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 http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210901165150.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82062760611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614095d929e22---42409543405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/28215918285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf1fb01c77---65035049598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zdravka.hlpr.hr/userfiles/file/65070990976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69162392602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c106818ca44009742c5cffb585fa939/nudumugaredodeduzajagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemicilojistik.com/userfiles/upload/file/4969066844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebakotb.net/userfiles/file/pevubexuwugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1eb05806c6ee1c799733c30101e8b3/29354034327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/64740182758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/34463988741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/30626166363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajivenurukinirumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/91056038400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahyi.ru/images/file/megilopupaxaxipuworok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/kopojeviwiwofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132fc2956167---pevimikupumugoxoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148a4e8af302---27483861892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dajafodutiwisijularovuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/27881043376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/nusazixalozegetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161444cae4f385---10015175984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+three+brothersPDF 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_off0000e221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE221 9904 bytes
SHA-256: af6e99fa51e375aaacc7198fe60b0f495e2789855a39952c647a08ef442fa766
font_01_sfnt_off0000f823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF823 17360 bytes
SHA-256: e43ff57ec75d1e4e89dafb97823c837b8e666e73039b34e875996b703074d51e
font_02_sfnt_off00012506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12506 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1