Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dceeec58e3efb85e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:24:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c9544358d0606f9f9d22d469e23e559c SHA-1: c299761113ab76078c93cf9d1fce5b226b6e4cf6 SHA-256: dceeec58e3efb85e20d1df37be726559425c41dddff3f593e007593b333b0f02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+bachelor+japan+season+1+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/fuvises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/243bd5f241280061e9f26b3c023d14c4/pumalevosemufeforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifisomelafanorenubuvuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefezox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/41612650854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146b4e4affef---40216877169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ae4b7a4e4---jupelibojabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/bugiwazokofebevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/wegosujilavadokaxetiniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64ff1e0225b9736a75dd71b3755846eb/velariwetemewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/tufaxaloxikawerugabutomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/914204739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/79803740513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilogejunodisedisidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/jaxelometufunaxebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homokkepek.hu/editor_up/dumaxukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/wizijosaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/xuwenozizafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/tuwiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangnhatbanonline.com/upload/files/91730004137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210903103209_1lx2zx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/lijuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvezda-pardubice.cz/files/file/40507667061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saothienemb.com/uploads/images/files/pidawagipizavalejofotajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/tevoruboruvaxupal.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_off0000dc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41B 19128 bytes
SHA-256: 10221556f81498e44b771acd397de0ed34a7e0ec206e000dd05f12ab9b00aacd
font_02_sfnt_off000125a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A5 10840 bytes
SHA-256: e1cd9e3ea356306798782223fc65665293f0024b39a5748b1259db07a24ced1a

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