Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc7566d53ecfb335…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:07:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f95e52209b09f1c6ff1097738486258c SHA-1: 4b16a6129c5bf68a0dc34d2ff9f02a96076b0100 SHA-256: dc7566d53ecfb33597481a6c7fddf116570c8f40e0ac281798fb4d947334747b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable domains. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=independencia+de+mexico+pdf+unam PDF link annotation
    • http://www.humillacionyestrella.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gumukoralatovivafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26318710526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4feb56780b---23244477246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d472a5d534---21982356859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/10760595418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtegl.wsystem.sk/userfiles/files/31084433593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51905526517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3defe847e4fdea64df9c224aa312e86/dewonidixobalojojekosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vukuwivukepuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/nenugugifibawoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f5113f1716816d70ad72998e7f8290c/siripixinegetovetigadofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/wenedepunukujedijufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/pafuvanurupato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43fa5b0f3d0c0d574ed3431cbcf9fa11/reralodasajuferovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/penepoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a5591b90010dc2838c9b490388de37/jesujigarumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/navibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/78623145324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/jujiwudopegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/majibatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/19244393685.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_off0000ddaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAF 10520 bytes
SHA-256: e62611e7c681f82676f6239114847922ddd771d8b3cc65c15ae0359959c4b158
font_01_sfnt_off0000f58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58F 19256 bytes
SHA-256: 559fd82fb95d614b1cc41b4db9ad4982b530e3482dbb9e9f481d02ef9fe52a50
font_02_sfnt_off0001271c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1271C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1