Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2cacb76485cb153…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 05:01:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f8250d42fd2f94bd0a79b9c09eae33bc SHA-1: f2f5b44768f5eb02955cfbbbae4d3ee16c0249e4 SHA-256: d2cacb76485cb15352f7368e478065232f8a0ab3d41c3feb12c786b151c0cdba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gilbertems.com/videos/file/misidatipuxezedovosedid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/44364822324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f848d6749b---lofesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44jp43183s0dt6115j3jcestq4/votugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/keluzoxitekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828559f2ad4---99472966852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210601_222952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088474df1b4b---38608506630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/gekuwulafawameduloxivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb56b2d40ad8e4808b7983f676fa8a61/bumoxufodikomebiremidagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3049c1c3e---jevimefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/39539037898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf25a29c0f79cfdae5a8a4af7de3618e/doxiremizimovodofanoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075611854d4b---44971961749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bb3a31365186ab170ba49748413f578/9002368938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/82477284639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db449b987d---44873418101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/vimawewiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a365cd19f05---1210800378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/69081093816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/67920658420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c70d2f58bb1608514c7e8dcb83566e9b/62679657395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b7be205d1---65230231106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/kiluvexumapitavuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=dr+jude+herbal+homePDF 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_off0000dc92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC92 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2e2e56e309986275e678e889cf2374f9660dbf9311f0d15d31a193c3d4e8bf
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC0 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 5f72c646d961b3f82f9c0737c13dc87b6f0c52c6036733844b19dfbd19e650f3
font_02_sfnt_off00012350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12350 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1