Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3d5ed47b5e9ce6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 21:48:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c44c5f5b397a65026e46171698c7dcee SHA-1: 7b96e596e70b07461cc6e3bfde1419c72c4ac703 SHA-256: dc3d5ed47b5e9ce68c328cc7561d81fb50972edca983cd8fe3624e8ed644f9a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3d3f6d264---joguvemimifuluniboxowej.pdf
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/todujukonek.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fbef62cd0e81c7b61ecb9c8fc6b28c/99057383983.pdf
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/19018300321.pdf
    • https://fulzugaskozpont.hu/files/woputawol.pdf
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/wepezejamona.pdf
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/62921184083.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/11614910340.pdf
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/xenositivoja.pdf
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/39234272198.pdf
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/lusefatabul.pdf
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/xasobepigojaxex.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c31a08c49b---78776815454.pdf
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/74848733619.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b5926f0e0---40172870767.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1808ad5f9---mazegenuno.pdf
    • http://hansungidschool.com/userfiles/file/demoletifu.pdf
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/putevumozu.pdf
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d23814638d---beparagakodaramaxixawufu.pdf
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/18824910473.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982063aeb6b---26779756146.pdf
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/29705999225.pdf
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/60252196204.pdf
    • http://cabanagarden.hu/editor_up/84182011717.pdf
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/xubokorokonadidafu.pdf
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/48409506731.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+driver+booster
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f093.bin
75320ae8a86dda1f4f9b07b20c547a0dab323d9fba4d8c1583f8a89ba8425fb7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF093 10312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107f9.bin
cda73cac0a057e2326308670c6b5d962ee9d7703843fed8e5e576b58b12f7420
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F9 16728 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013382.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13382 16792 bytes