Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec10fe9c1b57a0f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:51:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4fb9233a5afc59e8b01371522b102e71 SHA-1: 093a0b833acea8aadeaae99aac29909e68fd3171 SHA-256: ec10fe9c1b57a0f31f66c1f1371499b298d4ca57a779478a682e3944db3dd45d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are identified as compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://www.novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxazirebelalivurekumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/30744795575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/96685800253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kcahmeo0n4b37uvjn9qjcoo6k/47009726991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62508fd4424687422d73bf727620834/lodufeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.it/public/file/joziturafipasonewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairytaleweddingsandeventsbymary.com/clients/f/f2/f272f95a0afb65faa7304057ec0e56f6/File/xagisebenukuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/11219473298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/vikuselulupijuridimewudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-31/20210531163709144997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6089771e98---72511517954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/40088123954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0966693041cf088bc24cdc295926fa7d/mazawalumilifofupelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29838619321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobujuvupegogomiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/podorupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87023db0f9f5efe997f81c15e10d98e/wijelokujewamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4aoo0knkcngg0masa09gvds40/92165628531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba77dba2036---pesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/14236017223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/sagipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-burbank.com/uploads/files/sewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/55870917097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2990592.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22991096314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+cac+sunday+school+manual+2019+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_off0000e1bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BD 16308 bytes
SHA-256: 5745d87362a610a9c344f229e9e898bb3d0a35b64e37ac9f68a7ecb11c951bf3
font_01_sfnt_off00010bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BF9 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 474ded7d588af5180aea57c34962935c5bf9f2ecc2caf6ff55a8695ec37cf30d
font_02_sfnt_off00012642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12642 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1