Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcf2e5e3a9bb4d75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 16:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ccbb1d583244e4417b3c076e756815bd SHA-1: 0258dbd2108f11e76755742d8c1b3dddf0ef1c16 SHA-256: dcf2e5e3a9bb4d75dc5dc99378beb336e5d4b187913306b9770ffc8493f4bbdf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within documents. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=teenage+peer+pressure+articles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://peach2560.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vidiwataporumopigekasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1c74617df55c82d1e6b0baef0239d42/95877930534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gajagotour.com/UserFiles/file/51643232195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/98883042404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoatuoi360.vn/uploads/files/32986551940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/64925542372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121954bb8634---todaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dorn3bi4p9ukhkqunvjmlgim6/9866780573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/walelavidime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/44999186025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b303ca4f15---31996805856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/ropojeponapisobewonune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607466a8cc24c---58977234810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c03f8dcab1---wadefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl6ft2sck1fob8sglu16salt14/sufuzarukirine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641aa8e56531ab56833db90279a143e3/zezajarater.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/45144613265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c9e41f2cd---sukujunokepojejakewusoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15661628002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/35789560427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuatoyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tamafojekosibitazelenam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5860a9978bdf78c4d1be6c2f8f092a36/79821135373.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_off0000fca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA5 17796 bytes
SHA-256: b7b0f2000525a6a0f30b39a0040ffddb502ba01ac70e3b1c071fbb2d441cf2aa
font_01_sfnt_off00012b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B19 10736 bytes
SHA-256: c25751238d0967d4a6380752120449bc914ca47891de33aa23aadf39edd1432c
font_02_sfnt_off000143ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1