Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc5bc8cd984afc95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:24:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 496f68233f4650b401dc9bc2a71d7856 SHA-1: 32fc323eb6949352e5c82da6280ff7b386672aef SHA-256: dc5bc8cd984afc957cf3c820f0007b349c0add2e4e5f6ada3a714e67f61bff69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. Heuristics indicate these links are used for SEO manipulation and point to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/92615467735.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b51c1f133b9---bizufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/86890276577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fdc04957f---farutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55473271247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/86861636874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/56589266313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecologie-energie.com/userfiles/file/ritalewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96507629db0c8fc22ca84cdced2024cf/bixadiwerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159b9c9adc2d29aa8cc65480604ed896/zarikiviziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/31063124391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/nukomokogasozawiwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sierrahighalumni.com/clients/878712/File/kapufizadedemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/dudaruteromafaximuzopifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusbiz.kr/data/editor/file/1781519763610313572f6ba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnnjhansi.com/userfiles/file/miwigimesavevoromifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e84a103e500f2f18a7e933b1db687ae/rigidijeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d8bbbb624---fewajemomodulewib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/kegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/56566149607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/nafanudixako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8779f7cc278ada86b692f4e8b03c56/42445459141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/87573208167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=richest+man+ever+in+historyPDF 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_off0000e92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001013e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1013E 17324 bytes
SHA-256: ab8fed77826c5adde69b6a9424dbe7ab5da968a33c5bc4be743a60a04458e5c7
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6B 10676 bytes
SHA-256: f5455a53c6dd8c5aafca4b986d8b4b8237e79441c4222a32df4295db36ada5aa