Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec2e80d21c96995c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e96246cec73f78b4837b8b349f45c213 SHA-1: 968e3e372a293f9e3c1618cd7dead1baf0a70f67 SHA-256: ec2e80d21c96995c7d0724a8cd22e78e45dcd8ea5ae7c8b823632fc29b8c3ec6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common tactic to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cornerstone+church+services PDF link annotation
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/79635202462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/120026739161378b0cc288f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oodow.cn/upload/file/2109130520301022573bu3aglnpyks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seasonmediagroup.com/pic/file/548606025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37817088320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/69537355583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/97866810722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24543842921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/1273865664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323fb60bd5b---62615380184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/62771647830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f4821fc3d---26432901422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicom.pl/userfiles/file/lesujabopapaluwakavivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/06/76814112361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/malibilosixemubedugavig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/38563065363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/30616559958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65858446290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents/files/86027642397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/rejixozagefisoluvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/35015065203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374b5fd8f09---tukakedusodi.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_off0000bdc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D5 17404 bytes
SHA-256: d97e03f05f9afb76f61f71d76557272b4ed90ce5e62eac9d20b76119a0770f64
font_02_sfnt_off00010283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10283 10316 bytes
SHA-256: df54bbb51e2393985b1d7fc24f8434e8bed1e3b0d883989253f01d7d40a1bbfc