Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2ce1a716b210e23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e98c75d47325fc2cf572f01e1a2f524b SHA-1: 832bc54d5cd731519f27150ea2f73d9af4164363 SHA-256: e2ce1a716b210e23513c98e65f343f158d6a074d9a68899a0d76f7525e1ba8e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eddie+feigner+king+and+his+court PDF link annotation
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/99143798505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd42540e649---6314014481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rpo7v544b33fmf9edgv93bui6/3994135681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/64013138343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/dilalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/85876255841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/31677389043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/1065472914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608576ca1c198---satotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofupuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/35881373952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/83814411803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/99498479234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e665504fb2---pafobajutejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf036499ab2b807a251b2ef408c0353/69311547411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89616795163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d374ea675938936b93b9e5ce0febb91c/zozipewavopetigala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5ojr2s7qlhgdqn5tr10q9prio/72702152051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4il4pm7hft62e45nae8e72n216/poxomidesokozoboroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a233eb752---zoledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/11971544387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94cae654b224472681e287ddd5aa9a1d/fepukovekanikixifodupatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/duvorasazekusekilowovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/33541992408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpdss4kc2vmcpufgmt8tnqu93m/1283364505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonlawhouse.in/userfiles/file/xanusipepe.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_off0000e8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EC 10884 bytes
SHA-256: f92970b8909a24dcf3569edcfc2a3457d5bb39c03bfdccd7da0fa07dba6bad71
font_01_sfnt_off000101d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D1 17884 bytes
SHA-256: c35798e30595e6b98d347a26169464f86dc386c40c0ea5378612ab7abc135b41
font_02_sfnt_off0001305c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1