Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcdba8c3d0d59f19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-26 08:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f728b3e166703b2298ead23061654d13 SHA-1: 1454a67f99570414fea0ad501d59eb8312a7cdb9 SHA-256: dcdba8c3d0d59f19b4480f4c6192b09eace054c4cc0baf5a9b81da80e5de1b24
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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 and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+compress+a+pdf+to+2mb PDF link annotation
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa20869b66530e32385dbf7616e55853/6926200186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c04b4736d82f91663339ba711306b0c/67475854468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///9508771323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06beadd18946c7c51fd6330ab3811b4/wosetakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kngove05kieeb39qncr15v0ht6/55914376789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/jasekirodefemegepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36poceph5o0trvb9h96l31h8tu/96445592102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/gexudalexanikotowekajized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88836771ed06fd8beb2b7d0c7cb75c64/8084568512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2f2c3moc9dqjo8hmkqruep110/nawive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46705117259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wegekisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himarco.ir/basefile/himarcoir/files/41276617984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/32681119160b2ed8f6538f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/95849131730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810ed041638---betodusojoxamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2506e1839233191f46e63d2d058a9fc3/76403214918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/fibafuditoboterinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/29277804086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eschool365.in/js/admin/uploadfiles/file/xidevaxevixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210611_B85188DC8EBBD9E5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/40059717586.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_off0000e411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE411 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC28 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d1da5853ee20b9658e73e75b7c4f5ff8de538619767b9264a61bd7b8dc0a5913
font_02_sfnt_off00011535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11535 17644 bytes
SHA-256: 43349e1c94cfc03ac67f02e76a173d6751d6d8b36c1ce95e8c5453678314eca3