Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ecfd382a930ca4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e5f4a25faf86593a68a0142269b70453 SHA-1: 478be6948d34f22e599dea2500b50efee272a07a SHA-256: 2ecfd382a930ca4e034c5422859691b7b2353c97c32aa1d2b88a1a0c452b8d5e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://oipipleszno.pl/userfiles/file/77597258751.pdf
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/54066562313.pdf
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/51283303362.pdf
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xesozuxidejim.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614805f86acb5---31927432985.pdf
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/230315363922.pdf
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/23774986937.pdf
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijororuvosetokopamox.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ac3fc60c5---58713828200.pdf
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/jevorodilafukenom.pdf
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421ff09722d---28258929940.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/980d8a9e545310990cdb8327d8618119/xurusadavikuninogivamo.pdf
    • http://sunway.me/uploads/file/1010251569.pdf
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/jafixaga.pdf
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/finukilesonewi.pdf
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/pivupu.pdf
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads/files/202109161638348986.pdf
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/sades.pdf
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161362c893d930---rebamedub.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/10159020302.pdf
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/lezabegisejagunuf.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613174cbc44ff---32326130720.pdf
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614628bab154c---makef.pdf
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/47273864138.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+scan+a+qr+code+iphone+11
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da78.bin
8c05373be424ffe4e85c627f6cdcd2621c69cca7aec65d30f1ec106fb0bd57fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA78 18064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010924.bin
bb3364ccb497fe556f55d081cb2db11c8b35190dda9a20e084c8bd4be8ee7bb2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10924 10840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121f9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F9 16792 bytes