Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec8a03059e15f04b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: edc4d02ab55f0e667cdc572c4a08c943 SHA-1: 07577879f4f003de3796ea3df52d2b9007c7b391 SHA-256: ec8a03059e15f04b30a48ebf6464c48f601bd259cbfa12d4039145c71aada9b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, including compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fluent+in+the+english+language
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/66612841887.pdf
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/81342615401.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cb1cc3f96---76605154055.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf17391673b2629db8ab8ac45221dd1/72607336274.pdf
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/damedomi.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607018bf5c6e3---83188107632.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709b1ff10b4---54761065566.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45827bce8e---fitutuku.pdf
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a523b4611cf---57880629719.pdf
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/69862902989.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ieoh34dglkk5b99r8sv3eq1h4k/zozakozokatoluvutijus.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64f25c15da---12187470998.pdf
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/silawuzeveviboxiw.pdf
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2f694b8de0bd479800d32b1844fe3c/2527028295.pdf
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bea4f7bfc08---jegadofu.pdf
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/mudibedipepetufosutu.pdf
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/38959662499.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f144uu1eq9tuejfaoogvidtv/82853395198.pdf
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/76600395144.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609522216d157---vajozajepexijuzemo.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e09f1dec8b---32660055466.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6a9d519d1---97004924315.pdf
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/lipifewimokodazogog.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893e9bd1cea---wemugona.pdf
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909db64bc0---86784369851.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109ed.bin
5aba917facd16bc68e95a701ebf9a507cdac79e2376145e973507f63bfbb9690
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109ED 10244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120d5.bin
068ac479b141a1de393155e8fa0a6a9df494363a3c001d9432d0dab79300f8a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D5 17232 bytes