Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec1d5d945aa59b25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e288d34319ef51158c76cfc43a0696c2 SHA-1: f036d2bc677c6d555e73b7b7ce8e29bd8b854a66 SHA-256: ec1d5d945aa59b25d826f24d3cc8e0db751493e87c5bef56684706a298098b17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://santabruna.cl/upload/file/76579895411.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kingdomdatesuae.com/userfiles/files/zexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/87540616606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86453615434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/42677259925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/joganifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudovuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.com/upload/files/34456671817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/kixejumizufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.com/file/23205071834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/bukerir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/toranovejufugedogakexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/rizekatibuzome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kufokexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/sabobofikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://61kidsclub.com/userfiles/file/lifosekokugafaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodsafebox.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijazitezutewagufaxipezug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machulski.com/public/file/72650899936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/mamegonaxovifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383314b837a---3386073880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.ca/userfiles/file/41662804863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614138d2203b9---bomomikizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32028498038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096643d5f049f365cef5691277d03330/movilijupirebofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezowivitedumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/1595186499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=a+an+some+exercises+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_off0000bd40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD557 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 9213f9fc466874a9f8493de86a2070ede3b7f0e2a76cd3ea0025b98b7aa2fe18
font_02_sfnt_off0000edf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF7 15928 bytes
SHA-256: f85203773edae00ac105ecc50f2c050c8eb6a59c1395ad3739272ff7befece31

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