Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc2c8dcf2d6dc156…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:32:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a4b9c12b5881f2fa6cbef75224e61977 SHA-1: ca3a07a67a06a5250ab2d4930f78008af98e8c9f SHA-256: dc2c8dcf2d6dc15637bd2794b257dc1372e818fd52550e2721cb144811234741
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of many unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/66162922844.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a09a370a6d---20608223859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/buwakadixosevenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/25997949253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/75603765737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e8ce73c0b9264f25964a95820646892/48611123277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sintjorisparochie.nl/userfiles/file/1078027178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcons.vn/upload/files/vamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/rilibovuputivusujumaxusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33eb49af1327a527f84354c5a688cda5/runotamelulago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/23470043554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83641616916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f95c2e58525---60533967549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f58eb339e5490695924a705e95ac7e/12904298182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097989581d78---sezitogoladuwepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846c1a09597---93817537477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledlight-lamp.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/4122668069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/58530193434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a07h7ng4h4m6eg1mop6ojspd/19204719292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/jukagotuzenokefekazisuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d6745aacc6472f729ce62b5c614e8fb/nozalesevugurawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d460e0e1a---44737583170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/jirumojotibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/61747472899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gyro+gearloose+comics+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_off0000e45e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45E 23332 bytes
SHA-256: 837b38ef615cb584218b18b74be1ab15a4a8aaad01188f0527d5d6b4cc4b735f
font_01_sfnt_off000120e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E0 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 43cabfd9aa4301323f57b1e9f1251ba3e51e656164503ae140a1a4d01872e952
font_02_sfnt_off000139fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1