Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eca86f03b66a576d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 14:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6345c0b76d1e890e4b51b837ce943ce9 SHA-1: eb81ce9aa9bc613ec9fa1468dc105b0be7644863 SHA-256: eca86f03b66a576daa7d341dc0a044bc4666d8fce0fd471a52e2b3b809b0b5d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging JavaScript for redirection or further payload delivery.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wrestling+revolution+3d+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210911190455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/zebevax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meditopthailand.com/file/gomilugepasavadaletolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53654048516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c62865256f719e04d0783b607e1820a7/ximalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bunutimamodogizabitubibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/10151559956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/85617479050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315946b1c05---59031335529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeshengtecphar.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210912161001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/67510951381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olynskiconstruction.com/pics/file/42296322047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grouptm2.com/contents/files/wodipodamurigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/68772352584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ae862cf39b4789d41ccf5ddd221cbe/6437582774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/17188759335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaysshine.com/fileimage/file/92491974620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/11160227811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68890640772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdtrend.hu/files/file/nokezuxefepuvarasoxojenal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/vojararutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longbeach.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/kavid.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_off0000d39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBAC 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 86e47e05414586c425f86e0a4b06e996aaaa0da01ad45dea34b68c1252ebe3a1
font_02_sfnt_off000117bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117BC 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 8cd25c3b11602b24e297b8d6b2b6d33143de98b52694e645b3904b472632c248