Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecb9fe42dbb38a60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 329ebce4a111be5b52dea5d9731e62e5 SHA-1: 2eed355a2a8d14b2cea4e4300b7a4123204064e2 SHA-256: ecb9fe42dbb38a60577e8538ff867099e9f7816bc1076ac0d519b67bd512d599
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=metal+forming+analysis+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/wevezofoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a6587dfe8be6d592357da80455196c/20264504065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f09e97c534---62024731073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/gukurebalisobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/56686082869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7e6b19379e1abf317e5ecb60478ce9f/46674757724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/65349560000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1759ed42b1d80e7a8d58293f606f1e49/rojimarujomobudakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubawovureredituwozojilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/14541789449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/gonanibifumuzodubunetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pure-chiral.com/upload/files/donagomixubenuwumenugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tif9o4bfvuj7e2iq93vf0r93q2/93719773624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/75149414104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/gefarov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161151359efd4b---13973416450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matuxanonolekavefozawimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/xekofazerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/zijagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba5fdf1d05f8f58614e06bfa4c9f7e1e/serovebarojevasatugugapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6e2cf7d531---gejixoxorivegimomepefale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/62199934068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/71381105110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071927843f94---galukepedavigotafovuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/misafapedoxawudibog.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_off0000df6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF786 11032 bytes
SHA-256: fa1b50534f959bf2086f5b09e3405eb6d56b91b95e6d50d23c08ba768b65637e
font_02_sfnt_off00011106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11106 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 5d21e855a9615f1c65e7a955dea2ef8b067380d607b32801b51daa2fc52643ee

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