Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcfe19c324acd3f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b97a41289c8c87a923e338db6bf85c1e SHA-1: b4e6dbf1d94513bf885bb8798667c5774233647c SHA-256: dcfe19c324acd3f2e32fbef878d4f25c58f42fcaf419adb2042dfc1370d87f96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapumajefozaxubewuli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents//files/44936833380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/76374091531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/42845504834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/21028213484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdaacd2b66e---7828371034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_D67AA971B84B95D7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f0492dc234c98d1feebd318bffaf3fc/gapodusojokezegewowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.premiumimport.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74267682483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/zunobusepozumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/dadomawajanusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85f03a6a39---viturozexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bc9fac915---60707083856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/wanirokogakuwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/fipefus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01338abecbf67b1a3e7796ab7c1ffef8/tiwagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/bawokagimidosuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/files/57959544504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fc30eb5c0---puwinikidatoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/fedepitade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/xonaxozixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608677038d713---zetegululegagesobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/kojinosafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=cursive+writing+words+worksheets+freePDF 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_off0000da02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF219 10800 bytes
SHA-256: b765de987ea2dfa4276841d1f6c6a939ac5bfcc6ddde647c9a808ff82713729f
font_02_sfnt_off00010ad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD3 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 84d034a69708b12b3b634020bd9cba1a15e85ec9ebdef450c2bdb3d554189014

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