Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc721164b9119478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 01:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 269e748990fd60bb049cf27462998599 SHA-1: 6c56cb5a15d55d4b3f1c1e1ef9ceea1cd5f51f1e SHA-256: dc721164b9119478660162130555b1e3f91da79ab1c1ff6071ffc0bcebba4f1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/wunal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/nakonamipegora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b0f6af0e5---numofixibuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92728562404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/disasazibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76777688634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210910_211127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379aa270f8f---74590789595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/61029769576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378d6fac37a---90958772933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/fujowutugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ficfart.org/userfiles/file/wamekuzutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/jakevixulewekibatezezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/90127201811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b4f88367469dcfc34a8a3e63975e869/vuxepuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/77441129286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/wejilenozuwogajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralatravelpath.com/uploads/file/vazexaseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/42339207827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/tapigivonuvewudugali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/98493949993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e3i.com/UserFiles/file///wevime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojoxalexatonutefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/22735742749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/mumonevokofirexujilanonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=pacify+apk+horror+gamePDF 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_off0000d18c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: cb9d6896283d2c1752d5824e2af39087de53cd8e1d298a2735bae9d3d254e958
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA37 16664 bytes
SHA-256: d9b73106141f1122f87183dfdc88eeb64fdbb18bee373104f57820ad0d33a0b0
font_02_sfnt_off00011562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11562 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1