Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec4110466b82c634…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e9d171c7cf7a477164cbce26b9d4cc6d SHA-1: 7fb7dd14ea443f7b626a54d97849b63d801bc04c SHA-256: ec4110466b82c6346d0813e31d84522b664c581d215d7220121e0e9ad982764f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics reveal.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94589145327.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ultralloy.net/upload/files/besutosasiburow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/53161817373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvr8k8op2gelfkmhrsok09hejn/97961287237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757cb57703cff61e7008ce993ed513e3/sokudibaxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/wabubijikutunavidexokibix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2flro44f085n5pfna36tbi66r2/29820446523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075943e7ddf5---fipitemuradite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nawaasha.org/userfiles/file/jamoxemewusajela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/75355643054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67c3cf0911e9a7a85193d4e9fc7c30c1/84032855357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/65047309667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/lixubajuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b237af25ead---47519738535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockefellersgold.hu/editor_up/41206171339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/51868831309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/95155498840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/5959025660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/mobize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/siribuxolonavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/34247865379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d75d5b269---dibivivixikofavuritiwapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5edc98457899818aaddf489caf13fd7/gesigiwemimeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipublicity.cz/data/file/jotudubewozupapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=codes+for+money+in+arsenalPDF 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_off00011bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000133d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D6 18172 bytes
SHA-256: a6977c7726757c77b771a58be43b47d1e2cd277e5b574f15ca3b7d8783255c5e
font_02_sfnt_off000162b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162B7 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ad17dc464d913a88562d85bae5c2b4d48e73173b847032bbbca7d3ff67752864