Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9a8e1e744fe9cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d22a3f0885fc6f5bab042ddc2e6dc3dd SHA-1: 6763fd0f400fc303640f3c93d5f8627e607a2b92 SHA-256: ec9a8e1e744fe9cf003f7eedef980dafaca057ea5315514f3a661708e663f328
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. These links likely serve to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages, a common tactic for initial access via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5c4c16115gdim507ktt7vo2a3/84909501111.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/sogezudaxiribetose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibertechnique.com/tmp/file/lederigijer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41823440703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210613082342142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aedb18080e---molujuwaruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32e3dc3e2b---75341821058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d6fd46ffd---5660056561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/nugetubofavotorego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/wokegazuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68102533851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608339a4cdce3---sujubewudifojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/bepufagojemukufejutomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd9f2cb2902---64349055073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/86864627445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/45567707540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94b68b9703---paripuginazesasiwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b01f7501b406c7929431bad794b9092/66385356134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee8fd4f91b---sasepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/doniduxifajawurevitifenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/gafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/debiwodofojebepumowevoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/nuzelupomaxukape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646ba345079c740bec42fa0e229ccf13/15429142142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c3c6ac9a9132d86d1e45822b27a8218/29290605192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/9514149216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=kanakadhara+stotram+lyrics+kannada+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_off00016c1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C1F 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 16e7606981a2ee0dcafc84359c9753f5033db55a8b6e95eca0c5cd8e543ae745
font_01_sfnt_off00019ac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001b2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B2DC 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 39bd3ee893e894281f999e735eb53617df104098c34eae2dc2e1137c0047def5