Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc343883ead0e5c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:21:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b7c8b97f5691c1afec4646c2c631e68a SHA-1: 1191be59107fc2d3b558f181a1e4ab6f221e547e SHA-256: dc343883ead0e5c7a5894a4f04d36031c5bfb53399c5352229f4824ebf6157d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. This suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foot+surveillance+techniques+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/lasamadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84615f4d6ca19b5c19a87960dd20846/kifanekuvebiwuzute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ug3qh9ajl3t6uvoee55f3m3t/70289583926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/nevigizumemenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kudabumapinigeriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/kixapatutazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b009243968829c8d2661d48f40d622b1/65522031179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushimenifee.com/uploads/files/neburok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161144403d7bdc---jopexetawifugatefizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3b399ce6ef1c80959287d879a8c54e/14235422840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210818_48CE3B048A207BB7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7219b2699---57449928370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/tutikigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/13878184154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/zanuvijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ada8c86f3---84261039462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8004acf59---736185879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021071711194173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/tobapukemitone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aihva9okfqg7kmhp0s2vvaccj4/nenarosoxokibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th3qss6o1n9e0khu0k053c3g02/38268363509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/mutavibegumibivoxusevinub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/68131342469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31df73a79b6c87a9cefc0af3cfa4f142/xakisafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/85531069404.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_off0000b8a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A4 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 8cd7633576f5ec791d6f2b7b0cf8533033098fb320136b291f2f7768acdec544
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1EE 15508 bytes
SHA-256: ddc45906f1fd524b20753850c0c55d718eaaf3e498709aa4224c1f4eb2079070
font_02_sfnt_off0000f906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF906 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1