Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecc81499c4a9fa00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e97cabfc80f3574b143ebf6181023f1a SHA-1: 6b3d6986393a1d897612d53685056c2ec50933b4 SHA-256: ecc81499c4a9fa00b1264e7fc2dea172f977001141da3bef194664801a908c46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9380

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://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4gcpdfs6vs1n6fnrrqacg58f1/63433661620.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abdc866761---83834830568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a471887ff20---8387191781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/xiletifegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8t7sdcat9tplfjaj45trucj83h/33404716648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/12642818661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/gasopiledovixokolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/zaxojivevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb097267ba6---lulelonixesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c013204d55c---20477557745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/238c7dcfe315f35112d09a3e2d563c9c/zumerumelinufakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27cbc1e486---defudivawiduvowurunoderas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0022bbb3b0---73870829478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/20496055255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/70889625815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/ruwitada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helpibr.org/clients/f/fe/feaff840d005acecac0f151e8679c8db/File/31417110876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097483c633d3---83201561462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a3e6dbf19---morudefufoxifaxajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fjsn2abs7j7l8ltol667lm7ci/2033209506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/53778663794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d2nt753vkig9as711gch1ddorfb564j/suwofunizovemovirijagixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/55440162097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607a10e6e4465---74168782656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934cc534bf3---roxokivezinuxazomedasut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laolg67hqu6rfm43o5i27qljn8/84513795178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=us+territories+in+the+pacificPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019a43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19A43 10536 bytes
SHA-256: b852296b16c0a24383b86817eab7bf101508ec0aa09cc18c4588b2ca6eeaafc1
font_01_sfnt_off0001b232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B232 3272 bytes
SHA-256: ae14d40b537734d3c506061c084f449309f73601ff0d8895ecf05ec1d4a90296
font_02_sfnt_off0001bf19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BF19 19584 bytes
SHA-256: c4dc2c82bab3762994609eb69babf71f37e316cf076f8fd2e33a789711ccdf6e
font_03_sfnt_off0001f169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F169 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1