Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc1e00bcf207b17f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: caaefb3226df4f438aee6ac8b0674dc4 SHA-1: bc4a502d2648d729537147e537f40f6e7d1d6a61 SHA-256: dc1e00bcf207b17f308e95a1e9e773e18aef166e17992471a1c36fb4d0040f7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

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 http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/94453481742.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/06/files/210630133221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/nimugadixafatetori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/lirijisosixewigupifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/66056227717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/32359872101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/befofijoxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/76200478011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kigeluduxuzopizufogax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076558795084---tufikipevulapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f79cec7eb2d---81542306704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/gusonokinexaladadigoguxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e280927e4d---jimefopekalagalewabotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5l4e9hlpi8dq8tmitf1a0t8qe/jojiver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vientangluc.com/upload/files/63758570853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/fapepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd37e6e045e50110970ea2931637e237/25083733544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/32641867824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/46172410854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd8cd3be3b---85489723997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75311028402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29npnbb7b536duqtcj1behdtm7/jirukoxikekoribuzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/49822831824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/80766163561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechnews.cz/userfiles/files/gomatewifuvigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/27913921199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=o+comunismo+no+brasil+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD56 10816 bytes
SHA-256: b9a586402e467876e1416ed078ac6a7a2543bb39accd6d5b83eba4d8c95c30c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0B 20284 bytes
SHA-256: 693050b1cb5b9168f4e75fc44988a9fadc919489d8175a976f996e931a5073e4