Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d35a09971e02dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:41:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bbfed4b77857101e07013dcde40f6471 SHA-1: 3620950e7af4ee97e66978ece952a57407be1372 SHA-256: 1d35a09971e02dc1aba4613981f8d4b70c37f505cdce3639bdf64741b35e81e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF links suggests a campaign to distribute further malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/jugusew.pdf
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609618590eefa---rimimokitisikomumu.pdf
    • https://taxiporec.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3caeln2c0dfe8g125m931959mf/87304575636.pdf
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f9608067---vewazamowani.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbd9rrpac9h8nccilf77fcc5c0/18177265097.pdf
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/tuzilitisixotukowobeg.pdf
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dcd09d3ad8504cef879574094f08a04/nilopusasalifozajife.pdf
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/14380171849.pdf
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/getutukunoko.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934255f0ab5---losusesorarazedugelizez.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbd8ad3f2f---wibunobofepurigujala.pdf
    • https://littlelightnepal.org/userfiles/file/basuw.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71779e82dcbffc1a59c0df62b64cbcd0/32514412797.pdf
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/71813706289.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kri45j7vi9kccr0trmo056mbv4/zejamuniruja.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075928cb0705---nibafomenuxumajefesal.pdf
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/19533949583.pdf
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/pazezimagoxazobu.pdf
    • https://frontlinetherapist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da8d3dbcd4c899c54ee6703cb17166aa/76970811879.pdf
    • http://kfbi.ru/content/file/zevawupukegowipu.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967da650448---tipapafezofitifa.pdf
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83f18c6f73ca0c01ba6af1085d22392/nurot.pdf
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/83935241960.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+coefficient+of+x+in+the+expansion
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2A0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab2.bin
eff213b355e06bd53cc010065cc1a5649016d1d10285ddded99bb051c93d7121
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB2 17604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001193b.bin
9853ada205465cb74be09f3565531013a108fe0c17bbb1afb8819152530f530b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193B 10652 bytes