Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcde79c8b68d6546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-08-27 08:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: da99b0e357b7f6997a3d7ae16415cb60 SHA-1: 3abee6f74b7c1f6a56c44e7596c576ba5690a195 SHA-256: dcde79c8b68d65462c89da9e3ec914915d7e5cd8ef55c3258f03f7aa69156c7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowuweb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f3299fc69---zanusiwigawujilakavutinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88d02nngoeflf9t9hd76uc3qu7/92674363902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c8a8e6728---72104294917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltyfeelings.com/userfiles/file/67401752805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24064079548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/10738307622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/kubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/mesapasaxifegapovuwopeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/naburaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbba3b870d5a61f413318a1344f8d604/tewatasami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/91526660125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eokqmuogb2r12sl16phel8i5u7/32799786156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/14282232209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32c0612a7a---setidozazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/22159246025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadrainsurance.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/70336490314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/pavibafoxexetevusukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65gdi9bn89dmi8s8kf2bu231a1/lagumupizipitawulofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/dolusekavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dccf3ce64---fesesoreduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa1e2ab808---xapatawulegumuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=chemistry+of+natural+products+by+sv+bhat+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010cec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEC 11336 bytes
SHA-256: c9d9ff4f9bf4b5dfe5d878ecfeca1a754fe0cc9b4f0914a07d31987fc585d71e
font_01_sfnt_off00012741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12741 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F53 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 927c96dc574a9625b350db2b03cb6239c3d0c012ab686392a4525b5c7b757e4c