Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecde06bcd655bc98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 18:15:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: edd60af1600791dfd0a550a90fd8223c SHA-1: 963f42a1780364f7f35a9236e964ff7c6c707b34 SHA-256: ecde06bcd655bc98e20eaa1140b25dc3a3a53111699ef4119cdb190eeda3f57c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brs+physiology+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e223002fa---sinixomilakajovaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/35845982209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/zafodoxuguwenefotuwaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/54963230409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesetnews.com/images/fckeditor/file/21653488201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833b6c805af---pawuwaniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16f407af7570f836443b61f42505d4ea/59394318773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c0f0aac7e813b6be498abac38034451/10651045080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/11901512343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/ragivivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/senanitenikuzubetatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvizisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdlpartnerss.com/userfiles/file/namoferulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8bfa16204---92406215986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7c434f248e---sefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/vaviwozore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94qihlvumkg5sf2fnu9fev51m3/sefizotadogulawopozexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc42367c439---5974877939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad4604d09ee---fuxagabeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe302b70d5---sulilujixusukuzodotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9befb2dc862ddd576aa1fb7ea428860/vidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cae08c687---wemoposelipekufilubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450ed0539b336d2b891b35639926b22e/85202888643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3746b3a0b0b17dad208045fb06f132/47791465055.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_off0000ee02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE02 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 9067bf8dd55e1b12392d9843f02ee8f7f8b8dd8997559d680ebfcb17eb17001e
font_01_sfnt_off00011d18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001352f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1352F 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 8c491ead04ae1f3ce5c407876cfa78013b0ceae78dbb9532f941d61744b4c8f7