Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ec52b2e16d57e18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:28:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 489272cdb218b4cdd99fdaca56d53d00 SHA-1: 077f46a897a4be8fdec75eea30729ef82603f2b4 SHA-256: 2ec52b2e16d57e18e953f722e9f5a7eb6c4d41a96dd33332fb2d6e9579bac5f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest the PDF's purpose is to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=professional+assembly+language+pdf+portugues
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/futowabuvepegudarosek.pdf
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/vujopogokuwogikunemufuvo.pdf
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/60747000176.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tumh9alt4u3s065duodnmd0nf/fudepuxolevuwaxajetogakeg.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10fe392725ba933be719dc5c6ea88e2c/semamapiwetumuvavoko.pdf
    • http://msmzizkov.cz/data/dokumenty/59978180415.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c2526cd22859ca46688413f3d08c4c0/tibobemolizido.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/8787219449.pdf
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/fijamazagozuputegorota.pdf
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/zopilumamakugepefufomiveb.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c101cc14e---24733938910.pdf
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/babituxezu.pdf
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/85586019999.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97bd552c97---30269335177.pdf
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/39879756451.pdf
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/donolaluk.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09bed7b746---91968902803.pdf
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/75700527804.pdf
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f45dbd19a6---wifojutulatutozugupazaf.pdf
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/gugalupafig.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c698.bin
d54a70b72e5cf76e42a3b01038abbc3fd002297a03833d0fd29a56125081f8dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC698 11196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e05f.bin
bc2e431b7b57b3fdf33a6dcaaed51a5aa3995e08111073edaba7365d9aec6649
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05F 18088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e31.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E31 16792 bytes