Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec73e26d9b3a9d22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-10-19 07:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b29f958f00c5179304aa7abf99f02e38 SHA-1: ecc1d25319d5019ac8e5dafb2baf8c6812399903 SHA-256: ec73e26d9b3a9d220ea0c7de9c3a92ec3f1f307846a0ac78b477d509de16a04c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct intent beyond being a link aggregator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://akvanova.ru/sites/default/files/79915512787.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/ranevurukubemoteseratiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1539046143613d58f8a1553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silafukozuwafivum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dasyueshan.org/userfiles/file/zixokavuwipezaranexeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/zegavogodigawedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colokit.thienlonggroup.com/Images_upload/files/tuxijiruxubotejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.net/UploadFile/file/F1202110110017252912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/83812334820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/rexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/10979275073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/34505355174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citlak.de/admin/UserFiles/file/89320538160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://image.dlib.vn/libedu/news/bvu/20211013/file/14355872933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d003c9e3ea---lexakezurufejipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210930_154357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/8765891082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46503557536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f8024de16---zasasonebire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://najlepsietorty.sk/uploads/fck/file/karivazotovanepewidoxipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210926_000144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616b4f6aad0ef---kilarotanotozagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/56644931695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/kowuzalapabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=esquema+eletrico+iphone+6+plus+downloadPDF 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_off0000d1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1CB 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 15fb3f569738a53b518eb072c1f1412000c634a5d99e2bcae90e2524c3803830
font_01_sfnt_off0001031d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031D 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 1df4535fba86d3289226338416b03d78f3b7c0f7428e25788f171f54890c9e9b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1