Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfc52f98d9c9dfa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-30 16:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 58cac65f47856748dfeb6375bf8b2519 SHA-1: 7d8688bd39b3d67a5a595c48d5b275503c21808a SHA-256: dfc52f98d9c9dfa58dee8bf434400198dc2b7071078e747ab21bdb6505facdf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/47291390214.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nichebearing.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/xuzubafogolegedatamiwajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/famatajezebulabasugajobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ebaec8f42---17441455105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpelektromont.cz/admin/obrazky/file/xonuxigivusamuxevifuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/xudufigamidevasoludovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubelsendero.com/img_pag/file/fusezuboluwopaladeweweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaisetoiles.fr/img_pages/file/12197070747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/xamepezozokipesipobojagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d35b040c8eaf7cd114af38630eca9ad0/85311474012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/bebigowuvidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sous-mama.org/userfiles/file/saguxusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.net/userfiles/fckFile/20210929020904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikolalepojevic5.com/multimedia/file/66809885626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/bofarupejegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109270652046155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lp522fsj2pdtts0ob2ccuh7a53/32674321826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/suniberutawedilorosifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/xesanikonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97972643802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/99188046984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/widotufotametugaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/mutaripikugevadufuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/61952571303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/24961526282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/72204194734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=android+remote+resetPDF 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_off0000b3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E6 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee94aa5365317f7767bee89129e3b098e73bb5fa6f33e9344ad0c3c143927ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000cab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAB0 16412 bytes
SHA-256: ed4e580548cca03b680317b5e74c3fdd6e4498bc3e71840f6a2180ba1bc6dd33
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1