Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc0384a98bed1002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 19:16:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c241d0be828cf5be7f8d895bb545c2a5 SHA-1: 106c1dac7818210c6f12885c7217396daca912ec SHA-256: dc0384a98bed10028df95568ec0386c63b436d208932507ff79dc8c317a22636
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous embedded URLs, including those on compromised and disposable hosting, suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URI links and link farms on potentially compromised CMS uploads points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=friday+night+freddy+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://dom4m.by/userfiles/files/48421939771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/1810875056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/dajofipakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoatuoi360.vn/uploads/files/4301863775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojevofejojosezajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-mbc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvekerejavogoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c9c519d65---84905014864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/romus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdc10126c2711d857ea9fb29b9b671b6/kofuzoluxomugasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090617230373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06b04535624fe164df70f2de0641754/92235306229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/mozolupagesubesejinazazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zezebojamodetoduxewiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136909eb9d95---60431704233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27167a8ba6670d79542b48fffa56bb8c/52459107664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/vigikugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10-org.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4244286772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/31007060824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/97723034320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/80457061674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a48d7806c---89077768939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/56253070577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0898d1e09f92451032e985ec710fd594/lexawejalojovedukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/berubaluremuz.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_off0000bf50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD767 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 38251b1f71e09129b628d11b64d47a457552c293f665962e5b0f2936439cb22b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF61 17792 bytes
SHA-256: b9323a52945dd8bb48f61749b941a95f6c02a2a77abc153341344c1a7aa10ba0