Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dceae3cfa40f802a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 02:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1fdf1adcc5a5c97500147a9c7ff87313 SHA-1: e851df1c923b22d05850b619efe82c9af4e567cb SHA-256: dceae3cfa40f802ab676a295e85eb2fb0577fd3fbbc9395948b306787f0916cf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm designed to redirect users to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of a 'download button' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/xunatoba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/6998473909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/kelerefijopopasiribufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/94340598751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/23818283954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/33758688591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kppzp.pl/userfiles/file/rovusasetusasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sccsfz.org/upload/2021-09/92274348081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/9811300574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://space-edge.com/upload/files/vimofokelazoreluwuzobejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/70580259195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202109210947342182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwisalirofuxefabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/tijilemonegufisigunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/312bb53860c05101258c1ba07076dd5b/43364376884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelakewangshangduchang.a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210902_052058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee19f3eo37mfcdfeh7uc6bqfg/39950948272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/40614391333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357a62ac0b2---xokodetotabegakofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanggroup.com/webroot/img/files/digesuvetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endeligmandag.no/e-brev/data/div/65277978983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiansabroad.uk/userfiles/file/86415770650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/81114086026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51947465988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96749312758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+pubg+lite+latest+updatePDF 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_off0000dadf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDADF 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3c598828b3d0cfe83cb44197fdde3233054fc6a6531828b3aef84c93c54a86
font_01_sfnt_off0000f36e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF36E 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 048f42394debf59327a4a8c0449845be62156b071e392d5cb0e9d6a593a66728
font_02_sfnt_off00011f7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1