Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ec3bc19a6b21f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:32:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5eb4b8f8a6e5005a71e02a50636c912c SHA-1: bcb6590e259b5511edb1c0d6713cab5035e2f1a2 SHA-256: 7ec3bc19a6b21f0218f1a7f10d4198f5a19ca3940cbf572b60ddb80f129e3e2e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=computer+hardware+servicing+9+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ride.hu/images/uploads/files/javadivovumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/jibofemunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kebajulati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/sibigalazitotamina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/digitepivuredijoxetenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkercombsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/df/dfd517ab040340b2551da60fba195f5f/File/wigexebemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/4863359589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608226046380a---65235295847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608851d6e70cd---punoxifediten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/89095487212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://museos.comarcadelasierradealbarracin.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30563985279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/1111779910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210501232618241024105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a41aa7671e---58159338950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe4e92e17f91cbf1959c7ffeb1fb7ef/xelemumisidefudutifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210703022907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezedabakomiputojumu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14064024943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3193db6a7---63286366876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/97568054257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/mugisabawisemexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/224id4pp54hrti9195car1mv62/lopexakusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/55920433327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9def64740c---70276963623.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_off0000dd8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A3 11472 bytes
SHA-256: bd0904cd8589b6f2f0fcb69bf71a068c4461975e37b544302da707b91ee0c0c8
font_02_sfnt_off00011082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11082 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 1ea909b05541671417bad3b8359a3e47d7f3db2ecc2bbd5dc8d48f94bd6e7368