Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eacb646bdd76c726…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 02:06:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3982590dbd64a2f4703a1a16b874d1bd SHA-1: 78fac6e49e7bd9a3696f5fe769129021a02e0df0 SHA-256: eacb646bdd76c726c0d71c9bff3b6bd14313768ceeae60b3b91f771a54343f62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to a mix of compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests tracking or redirection mechanisms common in such campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sat+math+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210909015956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/89313020226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenglobepms.com/uploads/27935222398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catedralirodahaz.hu/data/editorfile/nufuzosarusozuxarukajowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/58621713579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/2747702398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofox.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezudeninitimifodaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/kivezebibevumerezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/81990441367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/zikuvetomijarexape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inteko-tula.ru/f/file/nebunelowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388a79f4030---widis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_695887820BE14C73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/divafemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/46328138215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ocvitlucky.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/67502392503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61731555499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f19b4501bf---83598642333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmbarrenetxea.soinuenea.eus/files/galeria/files/nodegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/96341186001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358181e0b69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/54462894009.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_off0000ce88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE88 10936 bytes
SHA-256: c64be91f7cc2a2e20041ad6dfd327495ef03a057864eea9097d98f194c23d4ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE774 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF86 18856 bytes
SHA-256: 9e0090210ebf6a252544f64db567dce4f78f814f80977564750735d153968610