Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc55bc8001b3dec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3659bb459ea78dd0c341732ef69bbb2c SHA-1: 5fd6c17e2c040c276846e5428f2d7ac5f06ea8bc SHA-256: dc55bc8001b3dec4d0bfa02b75e2d5b7d77624c7a2a32062f6163da338cb948a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detection rules further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+ppsspp PDF link annotation
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d4d4b18a895cdb90f3ffdb69215854/61483202166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/tananizipapugivupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/fixutikonepirefudiliwizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinatriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58849525070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/ravedaxugejubixabisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runo34.ru/attachments/file/90690084080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linardi.ru/files/file/19733282009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/47576534156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37530957943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/71963253229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/68974693938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozuzaxijinikorowivipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/upfiles/file/mexofefokiwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f80dca3e1d---feruwewaxozibabiwalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/zuwidazura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.net/contents/files/38470822514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/30482422134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapaelitehotel.com/webroot/img/files/kipegoneperaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/luxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4435863530cb43e005d2d95e70dd3e13/47271686915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advairtech.eu/assets/userfiles/file/78337382611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghadir-eng.com/userfiles/files/68736976830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210907070811368851jmsic.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_off0000d054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD054 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE866 17480 bytes
SHA-256: c53e5b5abd1034781fd5827e83e9d26fbf52d36fe830b8bf26104aa8080bcd84
font_02_sfnt_off000115f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F7 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc24bdb666d253a3503db3b32b24223cd839cb2431c81938316d6000577c7c5