Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc504a2946a73d8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:42:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c51b8731e4f35d8016015bd6268f4341 SHA-1: f8ee317fa555dcf024a8e7f72fb0ae3f8ab8fa29 SHA-256: dc504a2946a73d8ea059d9ceb7d952b4669de46970aa58fbdeba6ef8357faf12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malicious content lure, as indicated by multiple heuristics flagging it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attack pattern designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31800173794.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/fijukerakebuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a19e4d3b2---fivib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/rojuxatojifowukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/bejebizevekelobobenorute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/37116567725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9117d58ef66e4425eea3bb585be724/8905424150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/fipikenobonomukudifezape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a630c47f7b7bf5592dfe023cfd8b49a/dukaxusiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/jibizabakafafime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/tobosujigeturizuzorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f2f9cc4ec---guwezasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/fegowaremowulakovatozekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/1622705466882251107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c284494412b---kijenezigeluzefofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=compliment+starting+with+pPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE756 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD37 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 46bde53e5dceae81c209767451ffe1ded8b464f065dbfde32a1d795f1c894d8d
font_02_sfnt_off00011600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11600 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 66d2a9c14a0dc875eeaaede2ac685a5e2638ce390ccc8a3084ab19bdbb9b20f2
font_03_sfnt_off00014036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14036 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1