Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae0d4ba0791f1e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 05:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3f82c615a63727c8e7d558a088c31500 SHA-1: 84ce2afd05af353487122b75facfa649b8a43b41 SHA-256: dae0d4ba0791f1e7a0b84304b14cfd198d58f3035203595789258218775f64ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89936089745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/94093384955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepumalikaxivisenoxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/18380146362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210725_54C0344B4295B92B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwama4.vn/webroot/img/files/88935087073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee66f2c93e369c94c0627d387e4dc92/lanunetutojes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90836a7082a7787173c76c83189f3489/jodudofewovowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bee97cceda---xodikavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da9e848f85e1b5ede273bfffaa477355/55579431244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/40789274277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944b342edb5---33566997641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838ee35d387f46b2d30cf82d25e73799/43090406702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti7h5d0f63qi2g7uhreaq6vk73/56116605753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851c2da923f---26727331663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/ziwobukuruneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovery99.com/userfiles/file/varusirorobane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/lidizufepin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lj0c23m9nijqemfc0rr9ittic7/30692240887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eifa6it7uai5700ct79s737bc0/92960745043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279915ba2a30d60c0144484fb4c584b8/todivuneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/90881766655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=super+bluetooth+hacker+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000d64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5C 17764 bytes
SHA-256: b0a3dfb81d3f68305b6ec4a69d5599d3e3ac148f3511bba36d2dc2bcafbd1f4b
font_02_sfnt_off00011bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF4 10844 bytes
SHA-256: f8f9df9d623f946c50db7407927baa7dfe272bf2c8b89d58b19f22c8013541ce