Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d354c8774b88315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-20 16:42:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ac444f7cdcbe113840559bde2f7c3080 SHA-1: b6ef15ae617b05345ac9c2f5dba49c17c75016ee SHA-256: 1d354c8774b88315ce93780a4f52bb0f8234c2f0313d7e01857782df5c46afb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa5c50326d77ffcd4dbcfb8bdad95b2/98498716156.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084783e8d7c5---jimaviwomamadasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2e5aaab8957e1a979ee69484e1e3f4/lavogotemuwatotajowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rorelifafubunexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/sifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/49946371694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/vefokasiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13240445820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210712_8CB3CA52FD981997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44193183586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5e8da8f25---1109271021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/jebekopesosidajumafovibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5074cbbea80d56d1714793d77f883c1/gotinodowunaguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.haievent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ucog23ojfq39bv2p8qs7lp3hm/fijinegudepakulonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c465b0eb882b879396307d950a089733/fodebimatozatekulipanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6936058704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/29083651522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfoleyinc.com/userfiles/file/26350556839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d420c62df5---tuzawopurikufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e411c05aff2e918d13887ae532bf947e/80098913486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/18908318533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/nejirozuvagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb90f21367---dajetukusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=metals+are+good+conductors+of+heat+becausePDF 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_off0000e018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE018 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82F 10896 bytes
SHA-256: eeb7633e2f13937e1a75397d610fe28476ad2c236f674fbaa4d3bf42e99e6d32
font_02_sfnt_off0001112c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112C 16976 bytes
SHA-256: f74ce67f9ba10ec07520870a325e6a77adf80ef48eed6c549953df99c4529302