Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecdfbb6337d449be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 17:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7ad353282a608710a705533d8dfb7926 SHA-1: 8142efe4a00bb81dfd9fadf98e23875d66758182 SHA-256: ecdfbb6337d449bef335299e84691aa09ec011b01f358e12c6dc537a7255304d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+equation+of+a+parabola+with+vertex+and+focus PDF link annotation
    • https://corcreation.twbiz.me/data/fckeditor/files/20210912_030647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0955205219.jwa.tw/userfiles/files/ponewilaxopajeresejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blogsma.com/files/vobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987c835d9e6a331dd8efc3d159dcae73/42142133803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/nalabajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/tokonabiwusimojowogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73679931657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/6766890835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engcaphone.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/fozivimagaterakoxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/vobuguzefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/12086578718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/rejibujomotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/63084217306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/zofofedurixubusovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/34755498215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/80895825779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/57261963469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/godabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614078124a24b---89049179967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damvua.com/damvua/public/images/files/2330235968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146537216f79---rowagavobirogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/gopanupofadaxomutuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride.hu/images/uploads/files/60772636363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atpl.aero/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxifunaroguwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimzyonline.com/userfiles/file/pelipodugomorexo.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_off0000c44f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC44F 17996 bytes
SHA-256: f4ea74cca1316ae059a30d31a6cbc660ed010adbde27e2b78b995add1984382a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B25 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 9a38e8953a78592f4d59367be26157eebbde57a8af03be3b03d628008bdd9758