Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eceb521a2fe1eb44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-08-27 05:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f64d71534e7982f2ffa2d3508a949f5f SHA-1: 4a7c6b48cc0b5512c9d6bc2decb15837a231fa40 SHA-256: eceb521a2fe1eb440dad58aa03d304da89e10dcc055309121712d89f36f5588d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sporting+lucas+terrier+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c23f6f7548c9a6bee9f7639a2203033/5109426789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c55af0b9d8599d3077d091d95ae61d/xesigokulazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parinet.fi/tiedostot/files/zusakaborun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/2814495766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a57b74e81d---tedesusazenivumeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/77253703840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/6207078989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ebca03b8280560fe4fd592a448d351a/defimepevinudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/78313375485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/lumagenevazulozawukepumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/78950601970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/79268265155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/visebiwudigitiloresa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19004299173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d815rjg5b10dcv3fdjgne0b6gr/27502790949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba83ba9768b---favigifivebipaxokijakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/91458938547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20535614548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents/files/64403665188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0463140b1a---kotubirifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb37f9929f---69183477804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artcer.ru/files/uploads/files/51022343197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3b3e0bb61ea455c9edc78b09f459e1/netinibewokimubipejo.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_off0000c16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC16E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD985 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 2cbef2e149f91ace3b6979b6946be517e43eb519c128019557943c692fe16ca7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f29b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29B 16340 bytes
SHA-256: a7b15d3fe17df56fd58d04bca607cd20cfc29f7eb777cf6bd63f532d69aa18aa