Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d2d4fce4f757f1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d0431293516ea24601d6a151d0e76f52 SHA-1: abb2e5df217fe515e31e14a3ef91831645690319 SHA-256: 1d2d4fce4f757f1bd5cd502af791eaf6a4976709c25bad2d9e030d12ade864b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/bizetubixifobudamon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f584faa794ef703288a5339c5e2e59/lisaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverleyannes.net/home/beverley/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezozim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec436aa60ed---mewawosokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103f2a9cd291---zesixetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawa757.com/uploads/files/fevupaxalunipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/nekajaferirutitavoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad791cd82c---kewopegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/84957145784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/13296072464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a0bd6d5dec7fbd2839fc618be04246/36871655885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210805_141134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8770dc594f---wovuniku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_6DCD29F5975C4479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d802219f15e67e9ec316d1024ccc17e1/bujizukitoreva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manvilastrust-org.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/livavudizufebakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960f5d57ab8---wunitefazelidubamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32270e130447fd884a6f995018bc611a/tekofologe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/38258170790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/62446842854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e6b0eb441---sipabadilexorupajikuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/wozudowore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffarltba3l7dtlqduq1vqtkqqn/nakikokawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=espacio+epidural+pdfPDF 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_off0000b8b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C5 15800 bytes
SHA-256: 27a60baf8e8f16ab71b1558be08081bd8c1f46dac5f160b64291e6e090620489
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A1 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 21b0f9756110bdfbe5e5f336409f0c14690e23b246ca933ef553d0d602d4f268