Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcd400346466ea5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:19:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 80b0bbefb8b1e63fb1870eeea88254d2 SHA-1: 7bf24fe59bad152bcc204db15dd3d1bb887d2428 SHA-256: dcd400346466ea5b587970c0dea328e17348c4231dd1451dea46c79fa3143d5a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=codigo+processo+penal+comentado+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a00ac44040---kinifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kea0ioc53rg5k544qqr5iib29/74359109954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd1bdb67bf4---4028843070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3017600188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd4512ff7c---85790735075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/nelulovilerizogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/sutuvutowomabomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/zubunulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1df322ac81---47088634518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa390e4d4e628761d44bc87fa2b3bb4/bebibadiwuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/zexonujaxisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2bfe0cbc58a8bdb4ba4c22b1e15bd19/11456082927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/40428126202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/50842673667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khmernative-rice.com/userfiles/file/60274962678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/kugokekofakerepawabiguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/buveruzetodosenejafefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/8673436585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079262cf0ff7---79899600529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermanosgolbano.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpfile/zogamexeluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/13605234615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e43e5c059---64575230783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d390225d5---jigemazedupigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodujabilunorakiguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/luzinesifumologumar.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_off0000f172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF172 19064 bytes
SHA-256: bc492e626b0315e70a5fd359855b65db7d66b732438a46dba46b0704b82f6eae
font_01_sfnt_off0001233c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B53 11080 bytes
SHA-256: e16634839fead3995ea27790c7ee61257b64aa04e11390cdd0549847297082ea