Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec33d8e66fb243a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 07:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f9e97701779cff1f1920d3bcd764aa33 SHA-1: bbc9a6786bc958c39838c1e4bfec00d781bcac0f SHA-256: ec33d8e66fb243a7ddb3ab3c3c7368741a634b4b2326caa490dec32ad6796398
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 CMS upload storage, suggesting it is designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of numerous URLs on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces the phishing and malicious redirection intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/xaxifesog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e914c4741---kowufiruwokitiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93a0924c0---gobotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/78259462951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/75805095245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb9f5018912bcc57808a6341bfc7280/73485513953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lewigojoxupopabenax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/89070540997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18838930012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210621_1E8EFD3C665AADE0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvisollner.cz/data/file/78159484863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf9755ca91e11906a4e5667799cd0e2e/65082989746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/56923557705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linza-market.ru/upload/files/76713534467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqsc0gp7nun1g36cfud805cstv/22156650221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76855b47f4---81875271701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b36adfcd013---keretur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a1ab7c267---73205512844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d5dac9982---81284276481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/benopujegoxujozunuvuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609886373525b---fetuxesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/14853199090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/48712079147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=fnaf+2+mod+pcPDF 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_off0000e808.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE808 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 40b4bfd5cc0d4444ff59ac1a25eabb2ec3f3b79e6fe80e4cb97691d81622162b
font_01_sfnt_off00011261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11261 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A78 10244 bytes
SHA-256: da680d6ef49bf53421fde2073b49283aac640500df36d442ce7a91b1162cabdc