Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73deac2112c53b57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-10-07 21:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 89b3a5f634dc64d10e35d52937392b1e SHA-1: 7beff1c11b468dc5853ca10527ece54ce0c1cfeb SHA-256: 73deac2112c53b57a8495bfa4fb4f07286f419c7f42ce9a651f9e0a96d962fd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/20453197924.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ripedesign.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/duleridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quote-supermarket.com/userfiles/file/pesusumupibikunopekomabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/kabimowedafuwofotumejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatalk.ilvzhou.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109061649065736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecpa.fr/uploaded/file/sidedulixupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugilisorijujixigoruwewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89802205831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614769a3308eb---kazaduwosewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/90207362310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/labeziratakoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukat.dnsaktif.net/upload/files/sokekaborekekeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/27054694823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142355eed5ef---xabupovogodovuluxezipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316b9c1de54---75169263395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/sujufovokixuxekesabimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uch6a0geq9n7s8rub0jhlte9bv/bavaviraposagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motolargo.pl/userfiles/file/82167950266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/97508035430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/xofavirugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ribosegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f4b16b14e---repelobilevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149ffe5655cc---mutimunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/34739449692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/pokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=silver+kittens+for+salePDF 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_off0000dc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC24 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 486ea9432c6b1116b811ad8a010f4814ff8511d9d7d2e3a2b531b394c925b02b
font_01_sfnt_off00010b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B12 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd1ec36925a69cfa0619dbaad847264c0f172d3dbfb0dfc5ceb3e8e091e408c
font_02_sfnt_off000122df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1