Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9f897942a7ed4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:00:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 16b7457bd65221085bb49d108e549045 SHA-1: b31e4a0e4db5563e6747f39abc7d21fb5ccd66b7 SHA-256: ec9f897942a7ed4dfdd7c9327ae94e6638ce4197123826e0b20c9a815854453f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that point to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user interactions, common in phishing or spam campaigns.

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hanseniase+livro+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://aczv.fr/userfiles/file/xexususawinonavorar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5120638148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126521f71329---zakolafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/19649531877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/20798669719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kga-am-adlergestell-ev.de/kga/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegowijosazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cf1541beb4e0b88011cf99c88975edb/kowezidapidorujidexig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d7dbd948ee76cdc9a001057903294a/tekisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_6BC7699409AF3E0D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17287185967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/lawusimekuwanizijomobixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/97553113790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q19leq2h6298tolb5jabufhah4/jaluxinilekafewejuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/3248354616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b9ab9ce9---kajobeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/bejupowafolirarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/4476073824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400edebf042ba1049ea4140d60799d80/49518879897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/3000957061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/76287567885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/5089420214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c24184841a536b338a07ad906d561c43/70019579268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://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_off0000dea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA4 18716 bytes
SHA-256: f9b9257766755ec1db10fe4741c034dec940d2387d0e575746ef567e605f806b
font_01_sfnt_off00010f52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12769 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 19565325209aa2aa7d704f7068a8757afa71b7d074b074e8779e45dd4093b526