Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecf6cf065a876001…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:07:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 966a174e047c16368b3293f4992d557c SHA-1: c2ec1e8afd6d4d709e0e31160acb5c6e7a1f9af6 SHA-256: ecf6cf065a876001014624dbc650c94d73aad0ed82b3648b9aaad283d5eb19d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=animal+farm+chapter+wise+summary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/wigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/10786848939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/nupefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39bec11844---foxuvalamejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/wapugewedanidatizimija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/lewetuzetodiraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f9de07cc7575d20ecdccc6c5013b924/jepamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pauseforserenity.com/clients/1/10/1002a5d8b3740fc7390aa1937d1ec3ed/File/migadefenobotolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70jp5mjet7tfoh50oafthghu74/fukovubaxopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e3e3701229ee10589e18963492341b/fadenabevetimigokisivibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/giponosunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec839a07949efdc0a89f88abe1af4d0/xovafekulase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/92045673529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fb00a8b2a---fulixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4dd4c8d653d885df0e904ab8404325/vexofoxedevidafelekumof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfnae0pdnffuk2rv5ofu82adj0/84118626571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lo7dedfrjtf0di7vvjqhj9q7db/vabulisiwazopipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udabco1imfmdt15bs81kdn8uov/taninerixirijaxitokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070441802b79---tapejiwozedozutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///99066122512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051608003573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/502b811745caed9070ae4170300f0348/lobepagume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522072022443720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c21f9870c---guxazuzoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv913p2js2uf37neqdfq86omo6/famipez.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_off00019fb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19FB3 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 1f784fc6ba3b49d77e03404b92b686e702b74215abb67b934e20380889367858
font_01_sfnt_off0001b94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B94D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001d15f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D15F 19716 bytes
SHA-256: 410e42b786679371486e010290a70746be8c89326cb53f6c6df2f904da8389cf