Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec98c389e470cb92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:15:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fa2bdb6db919a1fe1b431dcd1d89bd78 SHA-1: de05b9d7e687840e4b91f3be2d8b570b7d9edcbe SHA-256: ec98c389e470cb9293fb5fdd10aeca1655d413c32dc41d3e89cbfe13b13b11aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with many links hosted on compromised CMS platforms, specifically WordPress sites utilizing the formcraft plugin. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

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://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f823b58518---84576470980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/xikipusesulezukadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87fff2a5b2---52111396651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/gubezapomolegave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4c60e6956d7169bee0d6f673bbf48e/30638702238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/xuduvolelobezapogonewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d0c630cea---dirafaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qtjb1n068c1csb6q1q08llec9/65343678593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/77034231297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096abd9ac165---6082335348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/gominuzewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33e3762437989e64e3e4e3fdf6468186/61574844186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungtransplantopen.com/clients/d/de/de7cc03d42bda6b8b84c8ac9728529bb/File/veveropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madang.eu/f_pds/fck/file/9665918939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa10c4f78b---83530307731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5af42a1a913f0ad1291b645a759d4b5/nalefuxugepovuxojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/13592913020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/73618650976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609066a6ad8e5---21436256753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdcb0041b7---zidamerulimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fff9d9da63aac3c0e9ad923398fbb0/97642892670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5caff2a9c7c3a4fc2fd7a6e1822bc62e/gimavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87fecade324e8b6dc65ee4e873b9174a/73040207848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16c682cedd948f7c289c4b1d44a3ab5b/gepitipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=name+two+lines+that+are+perpendicularPDF 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_off0000fe42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE42 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 5814f9a75112f0816e401c60d61bc46fe5cd517b5506f6b4f369dd2cdd57c167
font_01_sfnt_off00012cd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD4 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 356dd2b87e6f32f824b5e46760c0d4cb04a0d84eacd9e988db82aac806b42349
font_02_sfnt_off0001460f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1460F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1