Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ece810ba4aa18021…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-05-24 05:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b0e625c8555d4f0a90a1aacedc6311a7 SHA-1: 759d888e6a54400b306a8ec52aab0c4556c82295 SHA-256: ece810ba4aa18021d7549bdc0ed421dd2e6ed709adf6e181502c56100257b9ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to chemistry calculations, likely serving as a pretext to disguise malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious content, likely a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calcular+la+molaridad+y+molalidad+de+una+solucion+de+acido+sulfurico PDF link annotation
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2419c5ad0371271921b33ab9ae3ead/fujiwujajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607421afa85f9---nosajara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608420431d66c---gafaleveferaxelejabudogit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a38a789a40d0739d2156192c323cf0a/riwovofiloliwabuvovavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878308c165f---rowalemowizovazefarigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608005ea64266---vowonawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ab61e035d3e98908622871374b2746d/91539552841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shfjjmn62dovgc8bitlueo7jjn/sodevogajegewusametopiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/029a5ba87ae466753c136ac85d09143e/63764503136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/filewevijexusesujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/11130833632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/13678759642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a12173dd5---62740720509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6354d7dea---51158651814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l61b0gl64de2rrgvl2pl8u18q0/47644876097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/petafizikinewivivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F5 5176 bytes
SHA-256: 46d62ba23e5cf3983e3153f93a548e4ec5abba2a39c2ce708a52a584468ca44a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87E 11952 bytes
SHA-256: 19aceecedd6bdc00df65acca16e7fa6f884167fdba187447cef7aad8dca18a50