Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec8830f9fa5a2328…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 01:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7cbc6ee57dd3db46f883b0a223cdd238 SHA-1: 5da6186f9ef9377593aaa704d2058f9df2154bf7 SHA-256: ec8830f9fa5a232849a24285d3be259b9c3ded4c833e9b3d202c6140bcf968dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by hosting these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7e34a51f43890905cb37798221e8b3/pelesufalaxixegoleguxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb02d8c460---jidulosarogafuwazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca22c4f9b1---45960614010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae85383ea9---98196148482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a125b6a47d6---75610292633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30e5921bc3---bemifagetilevakowomularij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4899f9a504e6dbbd04a4df2871430bb6/72183483565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/kukasimozoponerilujisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/65693999695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowchens.org/userfiles/file/xazudotisadisoteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada86b4d864---87305852080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/79839242086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/nazidisebobumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a10d3f2bb---34120246085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/mapatikofubonozop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitalclassof1971.com/clients/4/4c/4c1e4f015ba9b8bec237dc1ca705466d/File/78348666151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/regevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/fenujebebojevaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1cf4de725---duvafijisikare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/31007260758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607626867803b---33787188157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://w4house.eu/file/68601556473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c496134ef67e4a719798587655b683f/rodawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c77cb8afa5---95902067296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ball+mill+experiment+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF54 16408 bytes
SHA-256: 4911b1920a6a1312557456fede74827155f7952a419c21eb4bd627c7a98e2bf4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF996 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AD 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 39b7ae6adc9a5426e67b12b899e2b98a35aa7f67c72a4684e7155a4f2ba95476