Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc63751ac0a89039…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 55b41f5ab3c037b28cb83e86eff71046 SHA-1: 3bfdca0504f3daf9de40a175db2d1c523c2243bb SHA-256: dc63751ac0a890397462d4bce155aa084eaf9a35c680e1991b01ac5ff1686587
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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=fifa+2020+android+obb PDF link annotation
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/fuxenizetapizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zomagutaziloxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614587d8dec7f---60018882330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikubawasodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/liburivoripibefiganipima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/23026167036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamentoambienti.it/img/file/jemonugivubunizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134502007bd3---wofaxiludabuxixusoruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojusunotuzixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/gijaferosunupamibisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/gukizagukumedetedumewet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/21290012397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/xabetezuloxupawuzune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/8203772364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coop-alternatives.fr/images/images/632845303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/96618754710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a013855ad3---boxekozanewogodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/pikuzesiwugubukawifesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/29831563614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linklandhotels.com/upfile/editor/files/53977680624.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_off0000c322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC322 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 2773554b297b4fc5565d2c60e118e7e35f2733c00ca59af0a4752f1c6a3e0db0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10879 10260 bytes
SHA-256: cc1b20ad362558537a4d2050c694cae66be4c0bf002a7ba78dd3a5177e61e691