Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec792635dd32ca9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-08-28 15:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 032315ec10afdc63a047459d3a0988bf SHA-1: 1ed9470410f8f6e4afa4cc245376ebb478c7b17c SHA-256: ec792635dd32ca9c70f2acd46153c50cdeb19cebfbce3771ea9a37c51740c29c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as lures to phishing sites or malware downloaders.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72decbe949851c3039f30a092ad1b076/xaxubepavanebal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a8e7b59b78---bowidujezoxomoluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/pipabigugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsclassof73.com/clients/9/9a/9a21b0b253f7c4eafe662346d237c286/File/somutawexawoladib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e6f111f60---1925758716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/rivusudoxewejenuxefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607debe72dc62---20852263295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7138ab2c9bb7b65aa497a182bea00350/42076936309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161074fa6ef936---98849839209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv5kdkcfps4nsl8e040is97gcr/29247944291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4dpqnf719btc5s117fe9lv8n5/13820613704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73093d66d3323a22689fd62e203ff4c/109968482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0dc6a11b11---88314186877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f62b96c495---78567049875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30b2338e64---detawolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqa001iaibtheug2cbst6jitje/devufisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tremonttemplemacon.com/clients/862779/File/48756222309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thedestinbeachhouses.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987726478982cdfb5cd3a2863fb4fcc0/wafiwuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/90735360940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d87be6226---putotakopato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22312413197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/suvumaduvixixevego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7941cfe76503eaf698686038e0236afa/96910549366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/24202240058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fix+guided+access+on+ipadPDF 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_off0000d4c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C9 17152 bytes
SHA-256: c1b82d58591510004cd256aaa55d41ec2f2500462154e8b4078238605dbb4a95
font_01_sfnt_off0001014e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014E 10928 bytes
SHA-256: c8d07690e2fefb5e2e3f178fdc964dc762ec3f247f98a7a678a301196460dc0c
font_02_sfnt_off00011a9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1