Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec94e4acc5770d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0dcaa360567187b2b0a33a4118a87857 SHA-1: ce7b8af336525a12b001f10ee7e66ffeba03762f SHA-256: ec94e4acc5770d81b0314e009c0afbad79e2e8a5eca3970c48a69ebf81f815de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate it contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The embedded URLs are likely part of a phishing or redirection scheme to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05707068c0ead158e85f90bbb79e54f6/51149361406.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/zejovabenotasegemajukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silmalogistics.com/sitename/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/40453732628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/83393714307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/6522755968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866f6a8bf9b---rezunari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/tiwigekopazagelivez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/12105017898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094858e5570d---vofibimidimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagefapowate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmg.lv/img/uploads/files/62942127444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/dorepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh4brgkcr4vo3d79kvbdi9lhh9/pafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d12d57a91a---83551522470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4697e9d913ae1a9331c7089277888cb8/xosojujedaladiwunubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/midewodonaxevetitobagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073733d1058a---51482715790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b69d6c695---sefezinubididiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/30912342312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/dataniwonotofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/26925912532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/89687923778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d7a27fd0---12244423729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ebc846b5d---29949594054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d252e12b7d89a23a41e146a3a1a92215/51135297970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40a4a0dc4a120165665ff1e321e690aa/29266807854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfe0fe0eae---84015464295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=normal+balance+of+accrued+expensePDF 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_off0000e456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE456 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC6D 10912 bytes
SHA-256: f8e8270315723fc9f0a76b649409bb540ed30eb49be2f380d254188c51d5d7d1
font_02_sfnt_off00011573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11573 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 5f09ded07ad8283f272a11f7325b6c7322edf2f0c3a0861208e82cefefd91c91