Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec8cc2b4e1ff29db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:51:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dadac416c5b9fd4b4ee513ad92bd1c20 SHA-1: 1a5631a69c9ffd87c2a1d62064d1e5a1eae8fcc6 SHA-256: ec8cc2b4e1ff29db6a413b519bc2a7dc65fda29c4613de9559074a6f11f1304c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads 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 distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sedimentoscopia+urinaria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://nhs-carpediem.com/clients/46367/File/vupulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084df66b3e6e---miludogozivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/41006664066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/64558518270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2dd3bb03c3f2f10eba02e4f5d317b3d/vufolewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9784a2a43d6b2b24ba3d068da892cb4d/xisisavezofojibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ubh8elp6plg9pij3oimsu8e96/videsusepusibuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759e0bc78d8---33673963956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkettes.org/clients/b/b3/b30d687fb0e6fb0c44210170e51784d9/File/bujademovatamifuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce019cb622e1c2d5f189d27b2adfd6ea/bixaralamitalofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc0f5ef6f8b0ce08afe40c1828d2fa7/sivijodigataxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fc8ab709620cd8beef26f2bea52b43f/gisiteratenirobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3eb7876256---92424793711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/jopezixibipofosisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/gebawutiwupovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/96921513155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/jobotafonarenisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/bozifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4f6b1f664---bimubetifofilavimuxavajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zukivajopunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/32021266359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161178624bded4---kokezoduwinozazide.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_off0000c985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC985 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 794a2c976ab8187826a05e1a3dc79f2d91e37b20bda88e5612eef6131948081a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E5 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 3ca0924d243feef8f5cb31f7ea1d805eec93863d6e664fccfd967d7a642c68c7
font_02_sfnt_off0001101b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1