Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec87a1316b0abbe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-08-22 09:58:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 63ad97eabe58e1d766294975191da5de SHA-1: e223e1a68f92ef50b95268066accb345bf65ba6d SHA-256: ec87a1316b0abbe40ce9f7e38c1e928a5f552a85bab4a5dcac3920739081f318
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous links and the malware detection strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://www.soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images//files/vebopapega.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/ronovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/kerijevufelejuvudenan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/27149769220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picart-personal.pl/fckupload/upload/file/84620890045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heritagecarletonplace.com/clients/c/c2/c23aa4fb54f25340752d20cfcff880b2/File/dofabunodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/11343118015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57c70cd94e77eb544c260fcda38cb8d0/16649891679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/xiligutapejosipijetesijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mloi365kmb4urg9j7gr1gl4pgi/35633692233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherishedmomentphotos.com/clients/8/84/84fe84b553acfcd191e166b7401b6f02/File/remirurusepupiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvanthietke13-5.com/webroot/img/files/kupuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073aba069162---99491230720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavirikasonebenebutaxape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/64089287128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t0qfnvfnjka39r6kfc92ov6vo5/jededigiruxosapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28202185781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qll1kh6kej2lk1mmksopo52o5g/54829256313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/85044980996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cca9dbf391dd93d008b862b6af1aede7/bafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/68066172007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zomuliziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioimercedes.com/upload/files/luwoxigebipilelapubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/xebukuxaditosezebuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=bayrak+%C5%9Fiiri+fon+m%C3%BCzi%C4%9Fi+indir+mp3PDF 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_off0000c111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC111 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 37bf93e281299615e8e225a3226ebb62990f5a85f4ed4c1eedfbdfa9b2cbba05
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F5 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 8ab35a710dfb9d73db352d4e5d641ead6e077fb94eba5aafbad785dd27215056