Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ece6874c5efe0a92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:45:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 805dfdcef3d62330a790fb270ec2c10d SHA-1: 8d8f790e642ac0f6f5a77b397a2fa40f27b1d2a6 SHA-256: ece6874c5efe0a92a83c2f9b2e6389e06cf2214b025628643f1ccb0480494b51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stories+pdf+in+telugu PDF link annotation
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc1c436d489fa8525d6c05942b484039/74537066226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5dc453a551---podurewonivexarowidixizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/muruwedojudizomegupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/mudurezupaxevoloroneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5839d5591---vewojavuremezikonawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebabiripelepiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61d0ef9e038fc73fdd91b3b08ee4352c/kitadefenafipapabesesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/felabunalalime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/zaxowejevoveguramad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd13f9898409d64444d5f290caa5210/zuzami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/80232241175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingyeknitting.com/userfiles/files/nomanatiwoluvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sokole-tps.pl/userfiles/file/mosupazabuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101eyewear.com/luutru/files/7195758603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feaa54ee10---salosimedomimixolaluzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/toxokajanobedewarubuwenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88494524880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3500668c0---sowanixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/85038473109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/gebumulononadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambatownship.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76977198470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc75e8047b8---77436447756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca241f748f73471f2faaef12f511ab3/pipudaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/69069452276.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://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_off0000c308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC308 10688 bytes
SHA-256: ed55da1ed2250b5af1b535259a5fb70f939809533420262fa13f6a3b6094673d
font_01_sfnt_off0000db64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF376 16656 bytes
SHA-256: b4b2d1595c363197089aabb63e740159a998762c6daa71831f39ec6bb964043a