Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc5db589746dabd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 00:00:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 124bf74d998c7a3bdcc1fffa60d21fbf SHA-1: f03899f2bd590512f4982d93ae68a95daf6f3de8 SHA-256: dc5db589746dabd7b4692d5743624a7dc2ff81cc54c96ecc8ddc5d9269973032
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment, designed to lure users to compromised or disposable hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=app+pour+jbl+flip+3+se PDF link annotation
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/87014814327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6f32bd449---dutabotufijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/57876999364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negaratoto.com/contents//files/42809488518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/rumokiluwefumatusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kitnc64lpet5r2mgb17n6qmen3/wuvipeterariwepusibemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b228e1e5f9c---70778703916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c5b727b5f---94464214609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa63f5b34510eaf119e65ddd80d99ccf/37590133809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagavetanojefekalurofoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/rijafevavugotibolaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d25443a074c---79090524789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607754cb368e0---86049339709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/13983002619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d11837280---roxuvirigomojawipopibamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/61240704637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40fd3a3af2262cd86eff254520ba4926/mapubigobofuwisuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc165de863a---balomopifupamefoditaxitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/mubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/14873106823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42aa7db1a4e9a0aea0304de2dae08f46/sivakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/18099448549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606e4a9821526---77762544328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a303fa5dc47---pemadozavevajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/dowawufatekika.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_off0000c84b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84B 16064 bytes
SHA-256: e8f9536ae170b2872b8358f950516d292087124ac115f23f43170c78508e9bb1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF205 10508 bytes
SHA-256: e6fe19a5172fcb65c3ca9b54898f54906fbb188f880f82eb45304be69904d471
font_02_sfnt_off000109d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1