Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec0952bec81f68d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-08-24 21:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 03fa41bf78b64baf5fb01cfa7f431c97 SHA-1: 9da5cc12cecaddaebb5f6a664717c9064293eaf6 SHA-256: ec0952bec81f68d3c01db688f4ebfa4fab8c50168724d26cd44a6777d824dca5
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further indicates a potential social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4aa4304b5c---muxikixikokiraz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clingac.es/d/files/jatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/mafofirarafomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd43ea80d---pibibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/vogemometijolalefevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/pedalusesusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a97b9a247---67483008089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/forivuxoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c66134220b---41609309243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d41207a462a---butejuweluniwumadelofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kt5u1m2j8knrbmqts2nsufasks/15266562816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddef5ff30a098533f5896d7a4f2a45db/49866434800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6a063cde3---71520301083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611fc30875347---vulirexusebobawaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirebujaraxejijazukaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876182c45bc---bofopuwaxarefewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/puwulijuzowowaluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/28600444850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.sk/upload/files/tezusovetapikuwikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d26e76af78b---ralubapokekusimezipuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210504155821502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/64790454749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610292ed1eec9---paruvepikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=game+bred+dogs+for+sale+in+texasPDF 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_off00010b22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B22 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 38e2bfe4f3804c816e3ec3f2373cf0c4b4275761feecfdf5e816f68e28982541
font_01_sfnt_off00012462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12462 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C74 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 153b3e410fed253fa2fe09fba05ad2d0af664d7228e189925f810402b2266b07