Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ece489c074c54d6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7c934bae380d4d8ada974a3b7c199521 SHA-1: 80bc1e09250168cf3e6d4a9ec402e9a1b78e633f SHA-256: ece489c074c54d6b6bf6928be7605b80b708f0329d5f8eced4bd335811101c88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains a link farm pointing to multiple potentially compromised websites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3r0gc0pvvjdp5b8dej03ivai5g/47966655689.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/6857849941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/41085816234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/bikelotexosapibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponarifubasavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/65498967952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/42036911670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0dafbab623---xukegekorokugutudezidusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6bdkrma6aouel396oej6l3kj2/68348542484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827e01c9a58---koximapubedonuluxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/61916245343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f831504456c5eed9947a07aabbde5b/25633417792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/91440582343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/sizizifetigasimoduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae3979760c---3021841796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6ff620ddd---77680820480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/nobexupeziwuxanabirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e9b23456450613b5594edf4530fbf41/70248170274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dcbb20be1b698a3979ed2959b7c5b17/wubibusififo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/88887764796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8olul75njltq1uv415r1oga793/ninizafifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dff3f4b007a72c390dc2ee53bcbe002e/35678806334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25d742d256---mexovunufapimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otokuqce5uko52hmad3k0hlung/8328136753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mucusless+diet+spira+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_off0000e2cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CB 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 8374d443b85996c1e697c41674f4865860ac8e421aa9564cd0c0c6137e81d25b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABD 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 082b9bcb5ae25196b9a1a4bc170097ad79d4fc4327c4506b6d6e6cbaf3d1b61d
font_02_sfnt_off00012832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12832 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1