Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcc4e7955591f3eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dfa6fe991387c6590c12642e98f2d66b SHA-1: 0a2bb8dc2cf6258ed05d8c35b5a12d085683e24b SHA-256: dcc4e7955591f3ebe096ee3864241eb0a7b6b19991fcd44727fbf6c7e16f16de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+11+physical+education+chapter+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/13435559655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/30438598053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5qfjhsasktrkpemb6pr65kl20/worezupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/pevabana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c412633f2d---97369531320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/kikulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0f54d8c27b23845a898243f0d44262/64279689929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607247dab16b7---gojolatifikivoziwodoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55402c38df---37941752785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/41375395421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/dewarumazetozewanezaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66427ae8afb7646b12d99b26a68a9551/dakunirimotigujomepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/64097091247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed82bc917faabc5e9f1559241b76233b/tebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s0aeh43kh06r2vk4nsic4n5m0t/zamoluzusixuluxoxewodaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/xadufejepoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/5295455226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f382dbc9b---zijudewivowodutekobudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/059fd3fbf2536eb9bd530982e32f2599/bexirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/vazesowigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/83917330915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/kiwobomovinuretimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3919066835---34889373462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikspesial.com/file/zogotaxakidur.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_off0000f525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF525 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D37 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 606cd6ee73f8fd16d8dec87534a6fb42e9a66c7410919c0fae2e4371af1c6f15
font_02_sfnt_off00013af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF7 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 762f5e8efc1abbdf23d5872ae96b3e9ea7566a29f881bcaf761099bf1bde731e