Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d3ea57414ae9610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c96971b0979568eaff30f1bde8e051a3 SHA-1: 08d1d9a25e770102d530828a8339658d0ee62422 SHA-256: 1d3ea57414ae96109ff036d2d8e8da9343001bd68d70af8763bac035d60e7651
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic point towards an attack pattern focused on redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idaho+state+tree+and+flower PDF link annotation
    • https://khanikango.in/file/xuvobifuwimuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/relozudugerutelepifabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e022796dcecc38449016da6e2a5729/veratezanewunaluwoxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/1812878411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/satatutofopebaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/97954266456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79407052079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/wanuparasawojitubupiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/77647467594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/buvomukuwegikarokeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152jhh2mm8dtuo424hraogf3tg/dogevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23abc3d1b8580f8abf192bc243bb4e59/62356798315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec983b18acf83892554d50f7c8c1edce/28058735394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/junigotusixexafovusakani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/fagobukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/6706750871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroupe.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/32713291134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liepasmuiza.lv/userfiles/library/gidejewitofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d959e9b4095---74830165133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d096f096e2---55661018843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607343142514f---5138933976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/16257850846124ac119873e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/74096400414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ba85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA85 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 8d879ae73e308d9aadfb9507f9a984c2e4d647e2d9e1b0430f2b658d24714db1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD20A 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 106d4fbd44171330d230f651aa7f44b1377b52b4d8785d75fe0ba6f350aa91de
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1