Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecb278b67a7d8072…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 22:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 37bc5606de3c776db8f6212002d44005 SHA-1: ab3300741212923d29a5cc0b26ac98cf2885cf44 SHA-256: ecb278b67a7d8072e47c50a08465f32b9c3ea6873ca6851bf9b2afbcce0648fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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 http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/wibidukoradizorivu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5klav82kcf9q0p1j6tev0khut2/fazoduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.ph/app/webroot/img/files/pumurasewoduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609983d1bc9c7---wowojurilavidoroxudiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/dukexuxolexilalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f632iuucqngj4lme4sdids37ha/63653155134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/dibodivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075599a7e616---gumokome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f019ebc8c---50738433076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/sugodekusasavegosuxikonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://labelmarket.pl/data/file/suxotovubatujogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c669763ef4---kaxozonirakubonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/gafitemekebosazezadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafb08b7ee9---fakigafimubizozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vugevsu1n1841mmvej95n7qbt1/50638131508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/84221189190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commune-bourre.com/userfiles/file/durar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160950dea09b32---majitorisuritixaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16440481847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///zodewomigafikinidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f611ab5ab670cde66e52cfe1613b34ae/69223945995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90063d3bd94fb5173d3d6234c972e6a/26979798195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=complete+matlab+app+designer+tutorial+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35219fee0c8566b71591f3b659dbb21d/zixuxumiwonodul.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001028b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028B 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 94019368941cf7f48ef680d22ee23862e350780e10a6839c1f669a6511f3d3c4
font_02_sfnt_off00012edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDC 11112 bytes
SHA-256: a7a2b60b3c92e0e23e49555ec21e21eea7c5b22918e3cf71ed5ac4475c3cf06a
font_03_sfnt_off0001484c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1484C 2968 bytes
SHA-256: ac3d79a457788f841c0ffb02a81a555e3e118602526f5a1c0aa564e59d1d16cb