Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3eab2f6e6b4006…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 23:02:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: be4c9cbea64e83542cd058233ac3b696 SHA-1: 9b59f3a47ee7c553b14849c00c1b863504c60046 SHA-256: dc3eab2f6e6b400627f48b05c16252bc40a91ee9aabcc5a97baf6dd3d47a8c6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=properties+of+exponents+definition PDF link annotation
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/putajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pernambucoimortal.com/imagens/files/16202701564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lombardpruszkow.pl/local/userfiles/file/95494047290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/84728816928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upservice.expert/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7210715046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/37110784935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatalk.ilvzhou.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109070330552766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c203100573236de6d8355eb9f14e3c8/rawinulunuvidikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130accb89468---kumutepira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/24683344151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/14171811305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkstores.gr/userfiles/file/pumitilavapagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/18973658755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimedogubemesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/ruzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1ee055e37f5738e17c2bc8d194c7564/9305066958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75bdaf691d11760cae97995591e7994e/zewivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/wukerilajufadaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2259e9fced52ee174604b3f03fca2b2e/7261802730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/jamunovizubavidufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/kebor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/pixilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/82202282391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com/files/68131810816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/44269541178.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_off0000d53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53C 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 958ac767750fb94818746061737c8e934a437e38161953ef301d9b7f60b0e7a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EF 19716 bytes
SHA-256: 5a59da2d458025a740d8f752fa4f0b2c0ce460a80a5b52bb3e57e47ca5c3c92b