Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9f1f47ab5db96d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b486f602c7d271ce9b46c4cc0c0e5ef2 SHA-1: e56382273de57a633ad6a2a4f36bc0426d076b7b SHA-256: ec9f1f47ab5db96dca1bcc3c40f9b6d9b8d284fe2ba7f91efe70e166f533443f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a deceptive link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3dj88tpcrvtpmhlfh6keva6cv/21364519566.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/27108460029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02elf3c26epd8tt0cj69g41f0/46630293334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/xexewifagolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/94911324150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7261df154a---67702344111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/52492173018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgo6b0cov0nueliq1ti50dnf81/difewaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/ximovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/61196176372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2739c89088d62eff7c6bd73ddccacb6/wixuwage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae11f01f20ddbef5d2f883831dc35f7d/62569662860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/39389540845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mathcountsoutreach.org/userfiles/file/27686803163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eed5a9211---44549692907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/52984910850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eac8acadab---32708585187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/50932678837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079926f3a08f90aa79b7fd6d32dce205/dofiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ba644d7f9a65caacbd160bd314f00c/10604458448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/4933427882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42c1dhzaq5aeb.com/userfiles/files/nadilisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhtaitung.com/CKEdit/upload/files/62494864265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e0c24929d---nopunawejemabixibemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d600945870---puvitoxozaxameki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=merge+pictures+into+pdf+macPDF 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_off0000e0bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D4 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 44379f69c2d32c3a8128a007e47c61bdf66bbc447e7611b64af909d0b73360cd
font_02_sfnt_off0001123a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123A 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 70fe2abb2e2b90e54c1a5323d9b8231eb41a9a2b8a2341411be1103fb4396c1b