Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2ccd7e3bca59ee6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0ee80174a82df0d419102c66c1948e9f SHA-1: db645c8b3697806c071a3db14bea44547305a621 SHA-256: d2ccd7e3bca59ee60e6167d441115f64a56397392eac2e5b5e3b4a3a0bc0f5b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point to a common tactic of using documents to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+delete+internal+storage+on+my+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1omjd7ba90uo5hvbircofgh5co/57979281546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huucodatlanh.com/userfiles/file/33596769552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/jumufaxala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/majujovasakuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/3734487050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deleersnijder-bocaege.be/images/file/36766416559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/risulotabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/75237653761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topconta.ro/userfiles/file/saletib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109032238059110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/sisaxubufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202109080726064185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210905_5E5FFF9805900505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/xusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e7685b69e---61443241491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/vorimugolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_8D1D800008726016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/67775136692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solartgaleria.hu/images/file/74032310657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/wuxetope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/19073004222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdc0a4e4b66325ae99d7e1c2c29841d5/fikozupixino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26df0a979dd3f6a6a219165539385779/19234951804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zitobisibugezerikesoxajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann.pl/userfiles/file/48862617219.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_off0000de81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE81 11028 bytes
SHA-256: d3242f60664aff9cb4e23607a360715af6df5c9e5559c80cc1825d8f669e21f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BE 18380 bytes
SHA-256: c67f68e99f5732424e131ff2bd16399d67f89cc50fbd77574939b51d98a4b144
font_02_sfnt_off000127b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1