Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec75ae5fa68d8ca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:04:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 81093a06c460985baffb1b16e995c2df SHA-1: 8d7583f9ffe13923bcaef70d0c3d001be229d7de SHA-256: ec75ae5fa68d8ca6bd6be9eba4b199898d3a245f944eb853694ca6724a4dce3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to attacker-controlled infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=heaven+from+hell PDF link annotation
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media//tomexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b908c738fec---47190656126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921f3061dcd---45480859614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dfd87f655---kikijanakabesebupewerev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081816fa8799---26260909685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/8182855698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc6171a88f1e5d27105e7898134e1606/62833090029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87521a97cc2d0310466fe9b47643d52/16155891076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087345d20b2d---3617441003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metallpress.info/files/28000725865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/8312929359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l8cnksaqn2hu5ajkddhon0cag/gutixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/33163988654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f51b83544---gofuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/76160969199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbwmd.com/uploads/Files/47984351065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daocn48kvmvn2pftu2h5q27026/gubukexupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/jedamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/952uctgaj0fngbrmf18itpqis6/7358794833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af493e170404362def452ee62746215/kawinilonelebawutatala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608068d4b2809---sevabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/64372288448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2abc030e39---19428168522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD317 10176 bytes
SHA-256: df954a21a070400810d64a01c70317529134167e1e07bdb8a8349cda4b43c8cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE997 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A9 20400 bytes
SHA-256: b74f2d4c816ad4483d31831d705be48ff593e5c382ecc184bedd7e6249b8c101