Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc64c76ca99aca46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-21 20:30:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7f1fdcda55164d98e5615f73132ace85 SHA-1: d68352b2126822f92f86512b771515d0f94d1bec SHA-256: dc64c76ca99aca46549180be01ef4d9de617c70405aaf387634d42b90bea03a0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/8061753138.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ggnk6utuvas4bo4796c6sqcjm/xuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushipickup.com/uploads/files/fetadasax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/9270537454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609148c434029---4730517669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7474632da---38721338330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/navemituganizazubogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/xipofaxasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/2242669189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ce93c4ced---miwuwixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/22878360797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/21000260608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/fojazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/riduriwokuvolutegabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985b54e685f---66337934822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251a8b54e9---86156752987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/89104988416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9542b669194dcf97f0942cf8edb0b007/famawebexapajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38efabc7f7dbf9c277a9c190067e6e27/jivorigosiledavapuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnk7hvdq03qsk7gbt059fb5kt6/xigofexiwikodilasegixazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/natabumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/9958833739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q4inuijpcao24grl76u4c5ien/karedaxelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7d4594feb---44093642652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f335491b814cf805345e096bf04f139/64353808654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=canon+f+158+200+driver+downloadPDF 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_off0000dfa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA2 22372 bytes
SHA-256: 35680e818d0c11c55e915f9851037a137640f82d38c0a402285e02e4a588f505
font_01_sfnt_off00011825.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11825 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 1acf3dc24ecb163c7cf11356c927d241d0a7cda31df5d7b2775093abb0fefc01
font_02_sfnt_off000131af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1