Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcc16b2ffad7ab46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:56:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5d03a28b0de67b3f5adb6fb703e66b1b SHA-1: 24e97f7dd6156783138c25e416e2f10ea3cf4b81 SHA-256: dcc16b2ffad7ab461d55c69bf0c9146c23b7d246cde6a8309ed309703516609d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thomas+calculus+13th+edition+solution+manual+slader PDF link annotation
    • http://medwin.kr/userData/board/file/muzojegivuzisoxugonorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/23557147058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/loxoturefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixline.ru/img/lib/file/kumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2d93f4e054cdf023cd65591fcf41d7d/jikutazawodegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/57236056736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df19754507---36178430737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/75046761775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ba8fb1084---lafofekadamirikofejoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudrun.com/home/mud/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82086869841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57528080043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a95a729f5---83628375560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/fokibokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/96090648347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog//file/30312461318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/66486151855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resortweeks.pro/userfiles/file/69509157362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q17c2srh84q5m0ibfc8nedoj53/83173625780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balade-pierry.fr/userfiles/file/wibonivuguzekediwipelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6000c0ac9---zodudasudafipupinemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/77781212730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/mugiwofufedezakijaw.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_off0000c35c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC35C 10920 bytes
SHA-256: cdce6bf5e8dd577516c2d9b53f42f0159d139e59bc7035315bd9a4ef55d89992
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC8C 19356 bytes
SHA-256: 736328b94f8f23460d0978d73b258863c1f83c8654318cf7755b2102f0c49118
font_02_sfnt_off00010f1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1