Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec906243cf6c8060…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 17:43:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e78489dd62cb4879f95d91825b13d596 SHA-1: 2cd55677a61ee2bbe83caba4df4e14fc6524071e SHA-256: ec906243cf6c8060903668b024a5a9ce097892f4b468eb964efaa49f58df8bea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or redirection scheme. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content via a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://davnosti.ru/upload/vilikipibojit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1d9964cd8---gazifililugavesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/kozizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/kufisiwuxizibusexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/xogajuvigebefixekewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/vizorewipebonedotexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/37622054148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3392738612---gedana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/tetisuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baf3b767f51658fedc664881e0566334/51619997910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a65089bae0a0e010327f882321659b9/samurefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105c754ed5ac---gorojegawexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1da25b12a---88315285745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buofigc601upvgvd70dl30aon2/74953037634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/donimalifofukuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardsonfamilyreunion.net/clients/7/79/79e100fddb184f5a3447a495e7c481fb/File/9672985345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/834j4mhm74l57rvnhfaha4i6m5/vigoditusize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/1599996611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd3fdc91fa---26122732718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/18861707334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/wubowatepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/semovakamamativenenefemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/pizuzagonidufexesefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7080edf15a929da4890f59331bf39251/zemeveraxogebisajuzusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083edac364a6---paposavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/xevenexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienanglass.vn/upload/files/51663743975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=beyblade+burst+evolution+episode+38+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000c2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF2 15664 bytes
SHA-256: f6da97203019070028d538d99e2148816e0676c12578c72cb6d02d1e5aed907a
font_02_sfnt_off000102ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EF 11404 bytes
SHA-256: e3a882dd19f47368b136f3ef2070d7762cb3c0d894ae1a2d9f1d3074aea92ae1