Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfc69f71fefd07a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-10-06 11:50:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5fe61387fb23a17b7d9115506af246db SHA-1: 2cc648ae1cec70c7cc81cc14a3a2bc860a0713bb SHA-256: dfc69f71fefd07a45db9d2ba3f749a59f3d9df7eef626c013b35d5da028df817
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the document's role in directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=come+word+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eb68be163---wefojidur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khocabien.com/uploads/files/nujuxitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemicalengineers.ie/images/ziredinigiridudozadaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/35461737882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78951130903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/49922396590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/17158237843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift2goa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79822127760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66529178385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/wudoxitasenudurodedipumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/46000964031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/28754234359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://998.geektic.com/geektic/files/ronabaninakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/16516180047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/diripofovekoxejofeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vje69hhepkvmg773pnefb5vtu6/43351890540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/tusomuxokineguzodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guweketiwinutesadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ef859625df---33762675649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/pirisupesejojolokufideku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/brmnngldb4n3mjfq9fm374icb6/xezep.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_off0000dd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD88 21052 bytes
SHA-256: 792746afc0e723f8d8c3fec6e626e7c055af40bb5a611513c9b2a5e46e55c4fc
font_01_sfnt_off00011462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11462 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C79 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 450ccefd5e90f6f966a46d16e3407724eb2a14c33106d3b9f56e1fea00232d4a