Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ecd756dbd299886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0ac0708cfc2086f7078a4684f550624e SHA-1: 5d8858ddd7a2cf484edd858901fa63ee44e2454e SHA-256: 3ecd756dbd299886fbfe07353dfd42775283ef0ed867ddab6054b580b3419d9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gunukose.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutetirazanupewaxebata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntouioc.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/81382688440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85909879100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hphnedum0ecdj1oni8e0p76io06tpef/nuvelafedasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bdaa0a1948---42096853088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401da3a040d---49696346832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/42603426500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27744295251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/82536722891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021916164989874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/93763076040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/27774916763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/disekezemitoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/guminixuwutenogipikipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/zerosobenejizupida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/sipipumuvitukepavevepufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/30967728919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d027f94f843806a2d29236b9acdadd1d/27684707416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsolutions.ro/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54526239976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://currenwatch.myhost360.cn/file/upload/files/09-02-01-26-01-28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/81315296122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=codex+chaos+knights+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_off0000ce37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE37 10980 bytes
SHA-256: ec2a49968f6f1ffa61ad55b4a71f64b4f84089a554ce84c8e89fed09de1d6e26
font_01_sfnt_off0000e781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE781 16884 bytes
SHA-256: e0702a97d6038271e4a99bc857adc1b067b3d92689c32521ead2f42269e0742c
font_02_sfnt_off0001134a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1