Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecc75f80da0c9a2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:41:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: a445f8db3007a68b260ec59458eea969 SHA-1: b871ebbf2808de9f75ec5dc5080d1191e7a96342 SHA-256: ecc75f80da0c9a2eb76989957e540dcdf22e64e1c38cbc58e1d4c737d3d397b5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-severity PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK and a critical ClamAV detection. The document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely intent to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=weight+gain+smoothies+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/63289109465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/37583568925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/96208155119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202107/file/1625457297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e159bb1e3c9---wetibuwimowugomoteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7fcttjuuulml90c9id8hso4ca/38491710435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/42829461611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/48664715464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/venokefumisozadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilghirlandaio.it/userfiles/files/40341672905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43e0b2b144---32290558559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7f942b5b60029efba6b264eaf84a27e/16305797665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9fe4ca616a---fesirapikokakikixudujame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebbc387b0449afc037d11c3e88432ff/bolasefaxuzaboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e220a4fc94---xarafodemaluxakut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/880d2fd11b747203ad58a03d10356a65/takovuvojimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099232f58c9f---mebufutulunokake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prawobrzeze.info/userfiles/file/tubesofudevolebel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogdq5oinhm6q21sho17n4mcvn9/15578567834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/xitawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c47238dbdf---resefonunuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5cdca8099---37851306383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3a691d096---87624855166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/paxotobuluxuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/julov.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_off0001046f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046F 10792 bytes
SHA-256: bfbfe35b29ae41fc051f0004bb9ef182f98cca50a0c6d6195428752fe25d16e2
font_01_sfnt_off00011ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEB 17764 bytes
SHA-256: eb84246c88ed447b75b0699f6f8bf6b1b32fd7c7737567029e11b2d06aa270d4
font_02_sfnt_off00014b6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1