Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc880e5d828d8767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:51:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 92272d2319599c470f18457cb0c5373f SHA-1: 7f417bc6496cb3312a0d0e6866132d8724dca4a9 SHA-256: dc880e5d828d87678766e40253481b089cff20a900d4af813a00ca64322780cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=secret+life+of+plants+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mibenjamin.com/userfiles/file/gazawoxesixatapanukojaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/bajusadowonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/lonazori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlin-aquarium.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13729563130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gobemedaguvosazexeluvofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gro-felix.si/uploads/61653766934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/rakaxumedikidipizojenobof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao0q5curjlti4rd1et8bpnm9l4/36188855667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5d0f424f3---wajesalosidelanaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/bumakamikofifiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telegid.tv/userfiles/files/karivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents/files/xuzabajilesesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316d4fe32a5---lotulasosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c7425edc06---zogugopogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/xubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/ralimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/damiwunepulureserarura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_AFA76FBBA8B8D657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumutajajelugigarufozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischtennis-kiel.de/images/file/sakikaxukawuxigerosamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/88316589440.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_off0000e3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C7 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 143e9fee6d97481b965e5212894a38613f107919d2dd02d56851cbe5d1a2f86b
font_01_sfnt_off00011120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11120 10688 bytes
SHA-256: d47913dbadc65b455e27afc97c345ba0663f56b980bf42cd2ab4b3b209857d8d
font_02_sfnt_off000129af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1