Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec7b09f86b86ff19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ff71d614caae2a91965ac761589edbbb SHA-1: 652b06f37789d221e3cf801084a7ba1cbe2e3607 SHA-256: ec7b09f86b86ff195a26771dd5a7c0edf0d0dfbb80493d1efcd63e5fcfc1d96d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the phishing and download intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/55810666783.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5858aecdb783cb04420e3043b53d9403/babebiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://normec-cm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugowafatomipur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08fe181c42a69391ea5ec759935ed762/medodolinuxuxujaduri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlu0k3mie9cjfupcin0ecj0fni/80529079936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/50732629324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inica.org/files/file///jemiwumijilowibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10564340944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/25464138961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/jukofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/1526551547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74299251547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimalowimawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tolltisztitas.eu/userfiles/files/zamimowapikorisisuwopomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/tudalumabitelawibesobopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizotiludoridekutololevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/96683612613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd.webseo.tw/upload/files/finegojutuxezidaxafekivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/30211909441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381e67481f7---96139625543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteel.my/userfiles/file/21135699504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/vowezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/48903535384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satakantaresort.com/user_img/files/gavuzomewuwowewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/52059113571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/moderogogodekilebenovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mx+player+pro+versionPDF 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_off0000cc54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC54 17716 bytes
SHA-256: 82510e70b6257d16d07451f8a22886957674ef05f7711c63ad4bed82a717cf01
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A8 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 7882a1b91c9a77f34fd72854e33cd524d5e8e87c2e142b96be5dc6037a7eafa7