Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dce85a3cff3cc412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 14:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 9fa54c3777b3d07803bff5a940bb7c65 SHA-1: a0d7e76dc7a66e6f24a495c41899011ee1f35617 SHA-256: dce85a3cff3cc412a2693137bb99ea6d520e38701f4ca4e8b72c85cea1b6e430
176 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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • PRC/3D content in PDF medium CVE related PDF_PRC_3D
    PDF contains PRC 3D content. PRC/U3D parsers have been a recurring Adobe Reader attack surface; treat as a related parser-exploit indicator rather than a specific CVE match.
  • 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://birotex.rs/images/files/tusivovoxopubilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/48045441976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/losujotusekaxajusunaguxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909c34a1b93---18212296852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/82415049469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/zizifewamurobekimopivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/tujimazivapovetavuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7336e27d9b466150dd596687fb77b6/89577336038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1165e9a746ed8ae547b1dbe2db769151/kejaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c880b8a9605a27a1324841ef5afd0c9/lebuwubulusixezulepipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609698ab8bdad---buxunabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/bowozemiwegarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ce878336c---xowupepododuxogalegina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/semepezilozukere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/77965090041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089791f16d03---12855441366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/91365045066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b94c45bcf---lipekikufisarunubojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/83253105623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078254287494---poramerafavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/42014791334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07911ef3a3b782171ac145f76de11e50/gamilegizuwupaweridiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/43922300960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidra.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepijatebivaxonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/35845931633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=nbr+7211+%28abnt+2019%29+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_off00019713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19713 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 8ddeb5817ab799fda3fc063e6a35b24c5447d3320ee08f0066568056e65dd984
font_01_sfnt_off0001afda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AFDA 19132 bytes
SHA-256: c8d9349a7f8855ca840bfa9c25fd9c96f9270680b8f659b4e3f8f428a1d8c017
font_02_sfnt_off0001dea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DEA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1