Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3cc24026443e5e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:08:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b4531df250a8811ef8eda00c64ffebfb SHA-1: 94e5614f100bab62cf501e58186547375e685bd4 SHA-256: e3cc24026443e5e7817f06072dbaf8e85a21e76d181f1942ee7ed003d23c9efa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this assessment. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly suggest a malicious intent related to URL redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixukej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/84621755737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f806faf20be3760cfb3567ca53a6e13/42469951563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinedelhi.com/userfiles/files/79754500887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/17605560824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/63118912608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/70122759735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgf7lffmo4864pgqhfn5vfub6j/lijewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pubs-icfas.org/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibotajenujapuned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosto.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66137225591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb39a9300a9cae7dd9daddc3eb29949/besadelekogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_73F744A572788F29.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b58fcaf222---38804973144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6d4de9952---zajuwugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/dekoraxovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/nerazisepanisebolewapakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed99f330cd5---24892186069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/dasefozuredusedilonujude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44fe2a2ce7711815aa873488d735d275/zujifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a446a2de994---42956937091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/675c78c4881970fbcb017408bfb7c8e1/25448812652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/xemisegeneroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/volasekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=history+of+portland+cement+pdfPDF 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_off0000c94f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94F 10888 bytes
SHA-256: cc3d6ba37e2731da0891cb117458566d922d4a58bc5eea98fec385da920c9061
font_01_sfnt_off0000e27a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27A 16484 bytes
SHA-256: 2347a11b14606cbc01faf394c3c279fbec8d4ab9cbcdab5035a0ea9872f0c268
font_02_sfnt_off00010d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1