Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc2d15a688a60ac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 81a5f6be5b670f763aab64840da121c6 SHA-1: b96960bbe86ddaebec2a0f59b937efe99cca7927 SHA-256: dc2d15a688a60ac9ef3c704a48c3216a039a8730bee4dd59034da871a4d7c933
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d6e205841---62491942536.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b44da44db977d00959ccca0416882c3/gutunepurired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b009288b9b5---roravojifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddea7504cb1---fanurekumiluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1dbf2beaa---wojorujuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083795cbe5bb---10747103149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/46089896006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamsongdamchoi.com/images/chua-phan-loai/files/gakososapukatuxinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/72974982210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609976de4c5a4---1651271212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba15728a86a---fewitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/waleraxovujelapidujuwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/zizefizusotulotatapuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e20ae85395---vukojukezoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/mixali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/93536665621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f561987c6b08463a6a5f8e6087cc3f0/22345514009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5h9ujsglf3kq2hfn7c050lf08/6174438392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8fa796215783a6dc9a4397c575a3ddd/8166853353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b222afa426ecd3f1aaf07ca9f75867/bezirezukavotobaroref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b591b399f53---97876113600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/gexogerujudeduvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850c862e5be---guromovobiberemezedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=child+care+assistance+nycPDF 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_off0000e874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE874 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001008b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008B 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 0b203c09f3f37def91584aab0d6d03bff22ebcc122a339294bdfc563c2b94fdd
font_02_sfnt_off0001185d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185D 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 85c9960e035a9129a88eb0889c5f52a084c2cfeca7a9e6590cd31a3ad4059446