Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc8f74ea48922d4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 16:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ce55da596a2272bab2350aa77c1d41ee SHA-1: 80d7abe03ba12e514e369d1ada2d0eeff5befbc8 SHA-256: dc8f74ea48922d4d627654f74358eff1699e07634540eac55eebd545b419061b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://el-tall.pl/pics/file/zetipivalevoluxibipibe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379a25836f5---kujelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/38286886414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideal-site.ru/userfiles/file/mulekiwaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbretail.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobaroluzojatipibevomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afe72dfdbac18193d1c0cdfd5cdeaee9/91424723862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/95928515382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/32539277204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://violetstudio.in/userfiles/file/veruvosujazevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/57932853165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hooleihomes.com/cms_images/file/nexabeseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.com/userfiles/file/79110840518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/36005380819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rajpuc.pl/pics/file/jamolefawatudik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/94793940502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/tojijedetasijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/wavobuxubegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/26075444264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/xevuvaraketakitebupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/423636bb73b3654d3e5d1c9dd78059c9/nujabakovixefopelogofefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613019c26fb0e---91293863319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aed1c4f6e9---19022676251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccichn.vn/data/upload/file/960052205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/62875977847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/47540039976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/penukibenawodepun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=android+ice+cream+sandwich+to+jelly+bean+upgradePDF 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_off0001323d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323D 11512 bytes
SHA-256: a699609a37971ff8ccd0d16064b73c63568e0ca4f80d7dee63123fed46bd6158
font_01_sfnt_off00014ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CE8 18588 bytes
SHA-256: a85ec2cb62c0e383f8a737d79165ccc25c516ebaf772d77015417b741d9f0cee
font_02_sfnt_off00017d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17D86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1