Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc56add2ab2fa57b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 21:29:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c0a868eb2329d8c017d4cc8c7054a480 SHA-1: e746266bfbd1128acc1256f304fd74a6f3368bb9 SHA-256: dc56add2ab2fa57b74151f598f193b78ed064598d15cdb272c83531c00a24f85
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewalolagizab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d3be4dc53ad95ba0f1af458ccd493f/kikaluzatigexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/pabivarasomunegenajuzani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/xapevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/gidubisejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonntag-immobilien.lu/userfiles/files/muxedeluveniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/katatazasitasaxamasapefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210909154550_a2cirm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maturitni-ples.eu/UserFiles/File/84535640734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/15060032364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/mofedutasegusiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webmba.fr/client/logo/file/79496956762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c7fba3b5c---27959638652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heks-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/sowarofilesemapabediseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62675726343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11194859214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81643941396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/fonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/wunexubepumusarilukefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/11032690715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbefa8637b---wijifekafadizoxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packagingandfoodmachinary.com/userfiles/file/wiwuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ygopro+2+androidPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC64 10228 bytes
SHA-256: cd570b03e8e77645a9a4055aaf06765eb2250dfbd68e2d5c652fdf2d052de6db
font_01_sfnt_off0001033a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033A 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 37131432d3bdd0538174ebf021f82540f8150e0d56f190ec3ea0cc83a9545243
font_02_sfnt_off00013281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13281 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1