Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecdc7e98c618f616…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 19:19:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: abd57e3e53af0aa5a791869467c1b54a SHA-1: 143c3855645a3e1f8023c0dc5005b264a21157f9 SHA-256: ecdc7e98c618f616c2c8cbbc6e9c92e2eeffe7010e66845e4f49f8daa781a176
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious content. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure align with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://www.pvvc.cz/files/9630649891.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ofcourselc.com/admin/uploadsfile/13784540728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kezheng.net/Upload/file/defokavarawixinigijikere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/46078437660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/39295187751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/zuxawide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3980e3bf2f151ccfb370d35a2e9f9dd/16562334321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/77670352357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/vakawawigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e683334c85---tagukitoluroxawomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gagifadamejikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/89270884052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/zikebagivikejifebidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekuvemuxipirowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/81445817158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/mapumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2fkpdrkki7146julj0fosc3vl/50198362032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251638d1ca---83238009596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/nitejumawubivugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/84882730475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/64325638036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+trozei+romPDF 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_off0000c292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC292 10048 bytes
SHA-256: f5be6977e9939b4a54e26670e8297d1670679c2bcd915d69d9ceeaaa0a4bcc8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E1 18856 bytes
SHA-256: 1eeadb51b3749f4acbcd5e8c8f53debabd1bd43f21b628df4bb88fc5a66359b6
font_02_sfnt_off00010a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1