Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ecbad2be8d5f6c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 13:20:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a5be00888aaa86c592bd9d087aaac440 SHA-1: 481fc2f0f9992d64cb51730b8c506e7ae4b0a227 SHA-256: 9ecbad2be8d5f6c67ab4cdff2466569a9f07aa00dcb20940f6dc891d078e6aac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=read+scary+stories+to+tell+in+the+dark+online PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14c00b1de0a5a8819c1f9de0792f7801/35533197355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/210um9kervs5v32rb6c2je3q23/toxenitiputu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nato07dvor1b42mur8qs9tsd03/regatazikonijubovebuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e5defe63a5---51106260125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd47ee7ddb8---75055430563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b55bc6cbc---69343113349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0f6463548cd4dec86ee549a923448b/lodevuwutowidukitafowetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/sitogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/zijuxovidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/kogolojamawapamipirexeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cn/upload/puwatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d21455827101b53b1b5194a3e14b6721/zovanemibaxuvagonaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b5bdb9ea9---fisiragofutowisomogeteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728dfddd780---nozorafufosubowozobotawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/74897011598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000108d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D2 5200 bytes
SHA-256: ceae26c1b6e2d757ec963c155361dc2fc863f913ac93025e1a4cd1ede5858b70
font_01_sfnt_off00011a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7E 10724 bytes
SHA-256: eafa052665e778f1261173325febe42affda9ba52fc8dbdc5e5c58bb34d40af0