Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecf48147c467bca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4c01d3bbc8ca8d80661f310a05204106 SHA-1: f1835a7a8a9ed9338ec39f180fc7497742a89a39 SHA-256: ecf48147c467bca5cd4e9b37aaf3ae5ab2651a4378ead28fe01c47dbf0b3185b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/durejopa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwojekowunivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/nobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38a98ae9b0---22771217193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/56814050421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhf7jd703vvm7ji7bc7bdioivh/nezofobalaxopuxited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80252c873e---70348576967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e06dc243c---25150895715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/tufofujiniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54284222938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3bbd1db213bb39759b979eb5aa1ec6/kamovaxegifufepefodusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d2478fa8b5da02db4033ef79862b44a/13271259696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a333267dd9d---gawipetuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4601175973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafaela-motores.com/userfiles/file/85064753712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/gafisiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14ed9bf6f3546e4673f8ea6b576e903/90836362050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/67563200407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a44647935a6a84ce2bc9575ab2ce93/36506795884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7492016071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868cba31e5b---57985736991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3255f443cdcd44a934d5500f15786898/makosibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/79598946817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/dexigonurenuwurake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdg64aatqr2tnckg11dslo1007/tikudubenozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=expression+anglaise+courante+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e72e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE72E 10980 bytes
SHA-256: d09133b1d523d5368b16f6c116f90c33960d63d7937947a9f83f4e95d4aa82a8
font_01_sfnt_off00010096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10096 19236 bytes
SHA-256: c056076e2ae1ed7d2ceee69c5f9e54481243143a656b083a12d8ada113783c1d
font_02_sfnt_off000131cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1