Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce3f6daf9b0ec29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-06-13 04:06:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7764f0ccf04086937cc90ad51f90005e SHA-1: f888bb8ea25498ea318a6b7d614843f3bdb69289 SHA-256: dce3f6daf9b0ec29afe91adebfb5c562f205c56cde40d0ce3c81f2cba779ac9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dilwale+movie+indian PDF link annotation
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/wunuzurunimiroraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn9r2c7io78r1bf36ru0jp4lp4/lemusofobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5hnshpde179r1mapl34bibod0/wababurerekativoxasejemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1421aaccd3353f6aee64cbf4487d744d/gufodorezufoxapegawuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a2ee7796e---22855435537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/pexinabavotikukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/9b501eff433585cc4d556ef8c0db85bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b57983f6ed7022db0dced021e61d48/5993167289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo417k2ont3jt67kj3i1pa6o3t/sexenuvimipanotimotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/ganidejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4ddcd2dc22713ac324f3e21711e336/84140170226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/bexufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0g3jhj28abfgja6rngu97sgc1/80669640291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8riuhvr1fk42v9k1rqrftp3k1/84613394961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9277715eb14f7a0865c1bb0f9a1ce29a/51625931576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/70694620988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC22 4848 bytes
SHA-256: 1eafbcc8c542e9e6da20fe259935fafa381be6666ca90e14cf695de9a34e50e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAD 12676 bytes
SHA-256: b38d8fd870198648095fcb10f0d0f2f0a806bc5f72aabfbcf6ba30675be68036