Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d315575fb495feb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 21:32:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 431154fff151afc75f414efc22069f35 SHA-1: 37ee4a4584f00672b8699ca15386fa507982e227 SHA-256: 1d315575fb495febc696d24bcc5c33000642ecaedf2ebb78eabe2e4cf1c06963
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised websites hosting other PDF files. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/janufulapuperajesoza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mackyz7automotive.com/js/upload/files/satiporugekogolaranugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/71496667079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langestrand.se/anvandarbilder/204/files/59891987260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed36e7b65b---73498535039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/44249123086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/romojomuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082313fd9287---zofurunowitofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/30330470012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/90594025324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/favesarasakowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sng2ast0fc88jk95sfpvfsspg5/8177719876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/60692995338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709fced7eb46e756c66d29800734f81b/62950762279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a00229b7978b8478031be99740810c/wiparinerifanuxejogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef323d86883c3ba1a081ee0cb2492cc8/zefizavaditosumozixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/892e91a6e508e180730f974503944769/mitiletelexebofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/64273008122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/87576486937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empezo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67787414158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a45aa299f6---ripukesevazuwolopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/17207986237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/votinojujugete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce2eb83898faaa0f151a9fcfa1217d9/93389351125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mechanism+of+micelle+formation+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_off0000b999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB999 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AB 15456 bytes
SHA-256: d5a0640c3317d12feca8f2f2bc574db639b54f76e8aa8f97ae7fe8ab43d90d6f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f93f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93F 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 677607a818323c6ade7b7a3c73fc8e0e74e20be40726d1076a01bdc59b70fd68