Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec7b41daa656a9a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:41:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 317a05d918dd5dbe13ae930b755d6f6d SHA-1: 24e5a5f4a7bfae63eb7a9c6944a0bfcd0c167a96 SHA-256: ec7b41daa656a9a776aad3d80a5b32dd8d04122fa298994870b77014133a1317
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94869341717.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://manenshop.com/upload/files/16657276198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dopuskvsro.ru/UserFiles/93853428640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/josebuzanovepezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/25794802687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/dapigoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/57100640550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370ca2d3a1d---85713239625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcircle.club/userfiles/file/4097026873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/gubitaverawupezogesejibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/tadobezeviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/nelaxelujuxawadifadera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarealestate-eg.com/userfiles/file/movuzexatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29052eb1609d8d689fe30beb26da3b0f/61464473425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b4bffcb7f7d82e216a09ce886a16ef/rikeferosujifoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lishasurgical.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegugiwuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20618150900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokocurry.gm/userfiles/file/52327633902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/92025653448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuamaydemtien.biz/userfiles/file/67537011006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/24166018917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/biwalolosudobojoxifasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunway.me/uploads/file/101307217675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/85661154386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=keyword+research+ioPDF 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_off0000df6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF781 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 9c9875041e8d559c0ce5b56a15f9667e0bbb390ce1cf272679b433a23f9ab8ac
font_02_sfnt_off0001241e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1241E 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 50ae38fe41a93b8d29806ac307484e06cc80d8e904f8cf8ad1399188f99495cd