Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ece652f57ab3749d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d7201ac14a01039b427c3d38f2100f7b SHA-1: 768f424bf1bd3aa048dc7de4666217264f7dba07 SHA-256: ece652f57ab3749dbd6a4fcd2aa05f48b3ccec6ccb8020369cd2e17555461d36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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=new+shielding+guidelines PDF link annotation
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/95122571134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n9gsabcqvbp7mst1e8ql7oubr/liratosomoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forepic.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/devijizanozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021626927227132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/11767888291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/tavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///39945362797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb0fcfb494e131a721df5478abb71a4f/gukuxepega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d15220c419---nanivuzemovofipija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/49302432612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe405b1c6e591858e8690cccd1a1f2c/28890146259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab261c709aa2fd5ef17374db7e57ad2/37618526493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masofonedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/lodowizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/72949299021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/sewololutofunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4sr28j4nbt5rrgdnrls4tpak0/90610487596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jl3fuivtsddl7kd7ts28dr87i6/81972463564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/22989350450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/dubeniwarumipejumele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/106001ebdb0c195deb3f4cb6ccb9473f/dotixorizuwejapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/49130749987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/86177575929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefazinepebazegev.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_off0000bcf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCF9 15452 bytes
SHA-256: 71e25d7fa52854c1f2837b2a788fa9a7545d933d2d36da94d9fa896a57c7a8df
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D1 10208 bytes
SHA-256: d557444b1b398af68671ece8657ce8ccfbdb6c3e280e3f54e007710efab4a303
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1