Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d0cc21c69006106…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 21:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5d3730924c8d1fd9b1f78193857d17ef SHA-1: 4c0e59f1f427c6a352e87b8bcbe5bdd9bd3df8f9 SHA-256: 1d0cc21c69006106f06cd9d17452706c794c5ccd5f7225adce5a4857c7ea799b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/69345041786.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/bivasatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/36689673435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/86569815884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a57d6846ccc79a6f6f5e47c25a63f09f/10221899912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c66e1e1583---jamezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/zitawozebugeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/89713819307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/75379838655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/20626264188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088458487547---74339610126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6139443a747e4d852805725d774e88f7/wumofigigodawelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb54bbb198ecaab394905429a18aa836/dazabona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97bd552c97---30269335177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebell-city.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76827875291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3734bd4a55d1535e9ea4c173caa0a416/64868285444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c37499ce9fdf1c4ced4f4bc9d0b5bcd0/muradepifepaxatuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3hi9a7acif4hb251bkbppaf90/90704684898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/93259818423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c736b114d---24102134164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210720_f1b02.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2cd9482e353a86c2654ff0d8d253969/waduluwobexopudumoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=intel+dh77eb+motherboard+manualPDF 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_off0000c708.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC708 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1A 16776 bytes
SHA-256: eb4103cd92321c2326c747008d5cc17a22008c52b10b59cb00c016834b660b5c
font_02_sfnt_off00010a39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A39 10496 bytes
SHA-256: fbc5fa10488f493c501f19d36aa0ab1c118ad159299c1926d85fe9277cb02a1b