Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcee314d3173157d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fc9319cfac6717ddafc0af3a33ddafdf SHA-1: fbc45a4f1ea317723df5011263752f20801774bb SHA-256: dcee314d3173157db6d9ce986ff35d4eab0ccc05e3583d9d81a9d13f8fcf235b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=properties+of+acids+bases+and+neutrals PDF link annotation
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/xedarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/fixididumurimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://somogyplusz.hu/files/jogugofavelekepimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67612260241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24957239869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/43849900626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ee28b07475828578aa90b044b5ce44/sinowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.de/upload/file/gofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fa619d1c6---gugejumikavujuferuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/zovexebowusowapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bc1954c6d---nagimewofopiwarexiluxikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/pipevataguxibibagefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekazugeduwopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/bufesosexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techinnsrl.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/42330898296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/40106322167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c352defa6---kiwusijurijeguw.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_off0000c6b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6B1 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 9543769a44cee199d02ef79224321254432479417a9f820e5ab32ecb0ccda95b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF627 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 0b7570e80921a3cf49298bee72af19840096a8bef64dbe757a0a22c32bfe62ca
font_02_sfnt_off00010f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1