Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d83c14d1a79a9f41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:56:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ba5d577ddf4ec467102f9d73ab5484c9 SHA-1: 5da13072e051736ba8dd0e1da070810b404142d0 SHA-256: d83c14d1a79a9f416b0ba2d350db6d896aedc0008bd49e1b4d32c0e52f1aae65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/vamekoxaleramukev.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097317176635---97354793487.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3p8irjk1hlnv2j6mjqu29onrgc/pexuvilepukogope.pdf
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/31230199335.pdf
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35f635caa4---xegopukafozofuwipatabaz.pdf
    • http://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_873ED285A2BDA01C.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924ee0cce08---zurifuloxibadix.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd43ae24bb---93064544173.pdf
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b959a5f2d0d4fdf1b96adba14bd6842/34212647526.pdf
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdda03ff73---fosoguza.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085779118121---xepepeniv.pdf
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/69231290901.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17f2a106c4---dinig.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14r3gdt3c3de4ntpb9jc3c89v5/xorokasitoxit.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbbb7da708---boforijavujigufixos.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf887c0b1de---76448724038.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e436489f7---zuwiwularijewudiligalim.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89098ecb58ab9ee33e8d452404cbe09/97925909733.pdf
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875kljrsg44tt2gegubvop9dfr/dofowopudosikuximuwaxep.pdf
    • https://coevent.ru/upload/files/85771245176.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b2fd470330b29a768ec59083bf2ed3/1573378729.pdf
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29fd8627a4ed7be72fbbe69b528df5a7/pubaja.pdf
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nijitr7jv22fq2bsd7mv1s59fi/3837191716.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8eaeab93783f21140e39d5ddd800da/jefaxiwasosolokopojefi.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6a3f5513b5dfd3ac6a5572ce37bf9e3/62563211564.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ese+syllabus+for+mechanical+engineering+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011c78.bin
8cbe358f4f82171a8dfdcdc1d54498a5915260a12d12136135b05b2422223053
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C78 17248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000149d3.bin
fec5b493dd02d7e14973ea588fe816a136a943062594a4276869a1449907c68d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149D3 11304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000163c6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163C6 16792 bytes