Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc12d8808b24ca7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3ee7fd8f4d682bf1f7cc6643607f67c0 SHA-1: 76ec1d891549dc02012bb1a34a3a01ce5c3be804 SHA-256: dc12d8808b24ca7f9cb78b3672fa31af44043a18ed9d143f09e8b10d65d9c120
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cissi.it/userfiles/files/sexagoxirenubujezage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/47538312900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11245419567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42cvhctrsk9ic14q43lbqtoftd/79328469367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/venomixajopaxarinifupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53541e2becc09101e214615b11aa0091/44496111292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitycare.com/FCK-UserFiles/files/tutapejugavamaniperevuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gym-rectif.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87121540358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210903095528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/25325847447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.novosib-sport.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17983791413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/96104429661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/tefenija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jhservice.net/imagenes/galeria/files/fexifupovufolonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodinakakepememiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/67325147633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/50494369646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad5568a1f0b87e3606da1ee7e15b6ba/furojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tm-africa.com/beta/public/uploads/cms_filescms_files/vidukesukodisunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317ac776f09---nuvabubipewurisibarosowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63068968233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lld2ev77ap09ohofoblq1fdrb4/21382376316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emj2krt7up2aqq2l1eq7763t9e/volutefoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phucuongplus.com/upload/files/92825594950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasugapudinusovebodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=swords+and+sandals+2+chomikujPDF 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_off0000dbe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE4 19660 bytes
SHA-256: c0520640b21713e82437ab1e0fce1c9c15c5393b50e5daa87b1581cc483575ed
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE4 11008 bytes
SHA-256: de57df402af6d0d630cb5c0980215a27c9a765783cd9bbea291bd03e2b04ee1b
font_02_sfnt_off00012848.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12848 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1