Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcef794a447cf62d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:02:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e840a5a2161028e17521f1c19ec485c2 SHA-1: d8118cd6e1048fee924ef55e6166acde5f92af3e SHA-256: dcef794a447cf62dcd2797da4130fc6e3288a75ee22b848b19bb7c443cc32030
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+polynomial+functions+worksheet+5.2 PDF link annotation
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/73241368981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/mozodifegitogiravobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/53313465102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117ead454f42---81756080587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents//files/37362758846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/mezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/pozerujesudinuwizoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiosatu.com/contents//files/sixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08a0aae1d586da7ce91b909ded6fd73/fugofibenelojeteselijorer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dceb03b1f5609e0af9d529f37d6423ea/59394267836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f130a47e43a41148a0c6ec723e467dd/lemewavipimerilerojag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/458ac5d4cd034879e91d5e6315498ac1/besikezinapujawani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72364352079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qur98e5i152bpj9p7akvh207kt/surijazanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/598254fa15b9b630b974f0f45cc2d660/74658906020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityspices.in/ckuploads/files/67031890789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e91269a3a---62735647905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/59328025090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khautrangkhangviet.com/upload/img/files/73882695744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a67abba0a---mijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/degebobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/munukigevokoludijadubuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf2e0bef0e---89177503586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/91958207445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/kazogodaduzebisetosul.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_off0000cfa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFA8 11676 bytes
SHA-256: b9ab1126ac1adbf8bfcb406a1c123d5c6984a8fe099705bef75e44b74ba2989b
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7E 17516 bytes
SHA-256: a5124391bab955f2fa001124d1e3cb23feab76c8d44f3e5c8d67b5f89574132c
font_02_sfnt_off000118fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1