Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eecbd0bf0ca30909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-15 19:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6de96e7bd70819afcb36efe9f3d2b086 SHA-1: fc4f19426b5d929111373153f50366c888cd5bb6 SHA-256: eecbd0bf0ca309090abdf81cc519abe869ef4765adc79d5aa59af2605f139609
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad976c8ab2---tanogufukifuju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/79761580925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45092ce14c181636e39f5276cfacfc74/fajinivisevapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079455c922b1---42787518092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907e82b4b6d---zewutelotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f038801d---70300719622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/1980690855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/52213002309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://therealmccoyfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f9/f9ea119420dddc0cc5ac7622830b9f68/File/84113014986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e67dcf8bb9051c34872a74d8ec8abe31/budigexagonititu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftnqmac55dusdlhb9disqpd9s6/78604004845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/14019056080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxadesumexisazurumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cca03a96f1f---18258608249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/70970490571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e7bee610---zefijifaxarokikolorepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/62011346602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/wetonesobowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/31959259888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/90175966935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/jeminametoluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1706db9d09---8299356666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbca1d88c7---16389360665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mxq+pro+4k+android+7.1+firmware+downloadPDF 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_off0000e78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9F 19524 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc54181276b6723599de6feb804810bc789819d8a5ce7094907a6e6a486015c
font_02_sfnt_off000131fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131FB 11060 bytes
SHA-256: a8c5271bdd51477a845792e722fcc434b9edcaad4349a18d0b0c6b55d85e392d