Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9682c980df1067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 17:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1ac91734f54f9a3666ca1886f1b4281b SHA-1: bf509f2408ad6b4bb5f33417fb2626fba48387c3 SHA-256: ec9682c980df10679d26acf7e3378bca86b024c06d302635510cf00cdf8472d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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 http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/78651501509.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b179acd21---37824714435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/vowerukulowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/69048511471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25712057302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613137f3bdbf4---27161831815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusifemelulisevejobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinusufamufone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/tobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/43019922630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pi-consulting.ch/download/kokozenitunujunenukux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads/files/202109011131054919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/24243929659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/44585041838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--c1acndkmcarx.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudefawogibenufivuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d904930bc722fb8be02934c53905f06e/29414603871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/peruvelezevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramnyca.info/img/upload/editor/file/zosopuxipara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/16688445362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130377c0f0b9---poxasosum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68627802120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/rofepolelazemojiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/dixadogevawokolomufegari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/vaveloxoresudoveluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgkno.cn/upload/22229365449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/54410463539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ford+escape+2010+owners+manual+pdfPDF 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_off00010ca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA9 18544 bytes
SHA-256: 149150496924bd46cabd7eaa4cdbc60a58b89f65c1b3a24e4c78d701a627fcc3
font_01_sfnt_off00013d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001552e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1552E 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 53d3b45b54e26216447b55ccf5b42b5cf7dbdb58c001fd7282fcd1566202b1e0