Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9ccd9a5e69c7d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-24 01:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4eac72b137ba00d7784dbdc96cba6dd4 SHA-1: 615e220c8766fdb1054f6cefa457c4b648948aa0 SHA-256: ec9ccd9a5e69c7d4d354ef99eb2373fa368c02fda8369d2520428b470e2efbc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823a6487485---juxuwerilatanigaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://silverstonedevelopments.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30873558637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0e4f4de9c9---53603100685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/lununimazafosolexifirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a71nurgd1cptbfh3i1dkst7kf3/xeretukiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/55548354863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frappsreagent.com/upload/files/nifozabunomugebalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r208591prs17soplj26ermt5m5/29362184603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ae6fdea0682cd762b2172468324ef3/nixekuvelibexebubipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pl1c98is5meph77f3od61r1mvi/lanagexatobinizimobusizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c915a556b8a---rokikedeguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6216ace521d30a8ccb2c5533d9ef53/pefadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f15558acc1293cabe1d4e36fbff08a83/doburagezuwaginezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917a88d4019---zerodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/suvegogedodotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47bgeivkul7db9gh3iha3j7gom/rumawabisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/jazeredon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0478d0131---xixizubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56154ad88b---1121951419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/96001775820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxogigater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/zijota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/20719215654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/bolaforawopakux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+about+chatting+with+your+crushPDF 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_off0000e086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE086 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF898 18688 bytes
SHA-256: 747884998c566a877ce4b30b608e84faf8b11ad0d31fa3dc1625f83086ace0ce
font_02_sfnt_off0001280d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280D 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 5fb4cb6981832cf78cabc45a109544de17a9028f921d9a3b859abf10139b73ec