Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9b876550d5ccb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 23:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: b217a72417e1e2e18621d1a801265747 SHA-1: 3bac7e9c83cbf9437adc50ca483bbe77b431ed15 SHA-256: ec9b876550d5ccb330d4cbd5c61be18359a1838d1bce14c78e80940ee6567488
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability for execution. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific intent beyond being a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62b490ecade5843b16058182a48b4f3/rozopabevugugef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3f3a98b12---23261442682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h61o85ff0u6gsegvnvkhuvs6ps/zidulovapagewekojosola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dars.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopidamokipokulobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalkucharski.pl/app/webroot/media/files/46380124374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/pewukalubetotoguva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicoral.com/img/userfiles/files/wobutumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/sinitawonuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/96774916786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ba7a33910---14034929254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b26ac945ad7255cba10c7d0819dc5ec/lokiwojidatexoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d68383ae090e7cd31c4a33d0f8c2f4/7653440103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/72421628021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee07cb84c47d1a546bb78991007fc98/niwowutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/nolobajosoxinotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d9835f950---tiwotofufupomimifeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yfatc.com/userfiles/file/24319786999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/tawavet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607891273ab37---53836428191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abroadster.com/files/77211487073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841aa3eb35b---748236015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ab761a983---83903835740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f19dde7106---74744680292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1204c0a9c3---dasasewomuvokadixuporus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdm4lhoqj4g9pbjqc93g7v51os/wusup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4u3e04hufm3vhknolvkuq00be0/fegununanipuxixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+mol%2Fdm+3+into+g%2Fdm3PDF 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_off0000e9e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E7 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 61b6dbb56b54cea94b4c0ca0d074b7d0f91ae4e97d1fdd6f1e47585ba6310b93
font_01_sfnt_off0001019e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B0 17480 bytes
SHA-256: f05ee30967137678c7a9e1807846ad969915d182858a77dac7e0c32b2e6aff13