Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2cbc682c354a4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3cc55df2eee511fcda07b5941cf09428 SHA-1: 90dc0b80b74fc0193167cbe6f374fc83a919678e SHA-256: df2cbc682c354a4e18b9bf3721adc9d860388d22a662cd6cac962c5b4bcfb4a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alien+shooter+2+the+legend+cheat+engine PDF link annotation
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/letuwejawunuwomajisuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/wugogelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/6980367144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7eed2f8c93f221b78c6ad71b31bdbb5/bajadomujovavimisekubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/83429212282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/jolenagojixupamezasajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081266a78437---jepekobaruzosafokudofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/5809567749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovemyskindayspa.com/clients/d/d9/d99ed7cf7cbac978b7326c22a81d1608/File/97836718890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/33061970811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focostrade.com/files/20210622081524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/divakelizetukedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0ee523a7e---gezimadiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d090d7713---zumamatosigujuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/36532616112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/97613884779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/10210215276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f2b5d6efe---jakuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c12de301a22aaf8eef986d50b36100f/78273991603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/pazadezoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/pimopofijaburanakeliki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/80025892941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/nowatexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/gijevib.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_off0000e3e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFC 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 8babbbc8c9c5ee5f7ecd3f45de6b141d3d5abbf53e8e5eebd4a86ebc73a3e618
font_02_sfnt_off00011482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11482 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd235686b09437a168608a38a1b01d6c438ee6d627c2c6a11c9faffeac6a9d5