Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eacfcc6ec883bf57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:36:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b40330dedc094c07a5a3dd73c1a4a055 SHA-1: fffbd26bf481ee80b3e6ed3584ad474f8cbab71f SHA-256: eacfcc6ec883bf57545d62761e17fb48bff0fc15129204ab462b1569bfc22987
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/97644344129.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ac6522e5080fc0ecbc998a2e9c82a8d/mabifopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/98594971248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/zubuvakozelumiguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/tuzupuzonomaraxuxubagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/zewofonirakobuwalote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/rufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd7d2b970f---84852778672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/603daa9f3ec087f8cfc1ec7b463efc9e/50945845389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3efff44d17bcb1fb026fb7792a1822/74606384440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globaltruthmediagroup.com/clients/a/aa/aa8380eac451876ae6ab993bf3a720d6/File/91314624723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/5753828784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c9e67ce95bc9eee8d72a8205db9935a/74501458445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/todulogilafapidozivagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/48809359642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/24981536887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca742515c---jexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609481dc545a6---38848457225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrmp5s2tpnpg2uu6uqrk9r5q9n/57605007786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b87bd9b06---kijojaxixobozuwuruxinuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba9e5861236089a8447a42a207dfa3be/diferuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/gafeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e329a1c1ac24e3e03ea2a85606740a52/zatuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/os6o6atmkeppkclgjr1u4nfsbd/24310117882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/3022525914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c940c6551a---96104083175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=stress+pc+softwarePDF 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_off0000f2f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F9 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 95b60479d3a61a7b9a4bf92cbdb81adbe7dc1d8ba00728f97e75252614bbbabd
font_01_sfnt_off000120e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138FE 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 0300e83b5f5e40fb71390aaf98a598ed4711456e17583630e34a708e487e1d44