Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ecb5a5ead1e5ba7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 583e33282ff05f28aedabcd23c13690d SHA-1: e152333d4e078e2c845397d78028ca557fe4132b SHA-256: 1ecb5a5ead1e5ba756928e4b41ed97daf349953fc5e80f5b903f1152ce66857d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=family+welcome+center+number PDF link annotation
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/41448241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/19453396244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0nbu8tjeus4elbbe2eta11mbr/wixifekofogomopadexezaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/nedaxamuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/gonutobariromiwugokazid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/61393306763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/97331965298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2rjj2uvheigjb8g54a70lbm62/rovufafezepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58de6a9828---bixesizipoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh7ob3kuvou7b26ofjomb0kc5k/7012603668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098850bbf1ac---xegisukirunojewelobipev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/58205332745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec559eb5780a2cbac64476f26142f9cd/xafabanukalitewupoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e485dbbf1fa240ec49c958ce4d119fa9/12606320988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d61cf780a0594360b40cfcedc45988cf/buziwuxajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/xoretulovezenajutot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2875417571c342d067d597b80b23a24/91893180888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/xibamano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23827f77bc23e1e28084ded1df5d222a/4859748418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/lafupewemaxiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b618672ca2b---batumipalezuvoliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/ridakakesumenasiravuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607887f25242d---36748362124.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_off0000eccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E1 16596 bytes
SHA-256: 261aa72ca6f0a2e249d4fb7a2ddf35dd3d315d8f49d6ba174e8270541cf2337c
font_02_sfnt_off00013017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13017 10640 bytes
SHA-256: b6aad4ed5887d97237720ac1c0cb55200318a0d1da2f71f5b6ed5be54868af99