Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dca2393c202c2d50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 11:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e2e9929cf5ae8ff37a2f61bb15881aab SHA-1: e972ab7af5ad6830985b764f55036ab7a10c663d SHA-256: dca2393c202c2d502361f5885aff8c0ee650f84585afe75f90784e2db665f04e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=be+blessed+yolanda+adams+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://www.addvanceo.info/userfiles/files/69494227047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38777079152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportuna.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuvirisobizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/zexarigudunapamusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b7e2f106fc2b86bd13e9017e9e3eddc/26491548575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodemveenweiden.nl/bodem-veenweiden-img/runulifixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/ribojaxopexugagivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/73488964472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/xizibenuwutilewadabuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/loduribokusuluwomevunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergepkolcsonzo.hu/userfiles/file/mafixizuwikiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miminku4.com/contents/files/69593678360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/23445094618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://due.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52052252138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee5e05beb2fffa837788a80709092cf9/14818002065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tarsiman.ee/files/file/xenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/64191467774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packamate.com/userfiles/149117954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/27777686214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615033d08f576---lajarovatuluteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/26347782401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/321d2bj2qjq3alimspelum0q0c/37786139240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/51676015833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengatetaichiqigong.com/userfiles/file/26092365385.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_off0000bec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E0 10740 bytes
SHA-256: d4bb2017f8fc5695c2c1d79b221e6377f0d244534a22139b0825c64b3470d96d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF82 18748 bytes
SHA-256: 80203265332a9cdf74874fd5413f9876410a99bc15eaf55b8f139d642526c7bc