Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec83333cb21b228e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 06:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4cf0034fb83c5f74060e563f4bb233b9 SHA-1: 476492fb75210917e0871af7f0c417a571f73fec SHA-256: ec83333cb21b228e67baf751f4dfced80bdbdaea70922fd6e328e8414428e773
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites 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 malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+arceus+film+streaming PDF link annotation
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1317922411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/48279311940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/maxidapumejidozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evqu2bha3bepfhv2kqn95dqji5/jizusujiwakilorilujulifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintedimages.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35335867330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b08e43349f---29535855615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnycc.com/userfiles/file/43929106180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0458f3tifh6k2f61271p42fra/gawaxelumodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/49323379669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56633052001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunsin.net/userfiles/file/sifodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/33718076748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purplebyanki-com.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxaraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27a76f03e863b6b66cf793edb261918e/divuwetexelarigemivona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/64700946569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbianninh188.com/uploads/files/lenaveduwumesuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artedeeducar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepududatogemofoxasazazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/74162034864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87d9b7a92e3e8d6d613dcd733b612fd/novulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/78013520368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109080101534050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40430451410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socukorglutamatmentesfuszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutegob.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_off0000bcc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D8 19680 bytes
SHA-256: b79d6f223092d4f25ca8110e8d9826693f2946243a8203fe212114e10c7a22bc
font_02_sfnt_off0001078d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078D 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 5e7964b271a988452befced9a9ab69c474218e1d3c9dfdb3c6aa75edcba2ff3b