Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc305c406f7abf3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 05:21:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b60165c98d18eaa38eba63a71a0d5ddf SHA-1: 060bdfdc573906608f7f51cf81947b46001710ec SHA-256: dc305c406f7abf3e41ef33ab2b14a95f743814ccf4f1aebcd8622958478096ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+human+communication+4th+canadian+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rubfila.in/files/file/kotabomiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/posufonesusepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/70335963750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/75730171088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/41424641293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuguwaxiwal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab868c2186---miweweselub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/91491781441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359d08bbc57---sivosonututume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/22942887763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/waselafavofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/10953301858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/22099822524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/87272844866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/gevaromizegitiwuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139866829038---63994309713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/gogazexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/tadarorovofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexosixabexekatuterugana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/42514539493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/99271284612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/rejikurulokazigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/81439437123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincodehub.in/userfiles/file/vopalu.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_off0000ec0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC0D 18632 bytes
SHA-256: 54b57f782c3a7393bf92c41e8c116bc825410d7d22ae3f3cf7680ef908792b49
font_01_sfnt_off00011c6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6F 11208 bytes
SHA-256: c16e4a7f23c15ad13f6932102df17672b01ae42cd55bb1ff35489d0f0860f57c
font_02_sfnt_off0001364e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1364E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1