Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d6005dd3005a219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-05-22 07:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d3e5207adfdfdba0308ed843f0b07cc8 SHA-1: 3f835856b624940a14f52c3837a5d14fb10beaab SHA-256: 1d6005dd3005a219e9f0a8b920e10b219a1e76ad8b0bbd26018fcd1bfe3e34c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c%25C3%25B3digo+de+armadilha+imvu+cr%25C3%25A9ditos+linkedin PDF link annotation
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0d5f4cb0a---38130016748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700c3a28fe6---regusasikotejesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e71ee31ee95a71f7ec4b1a42d94c60/97956276579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/zasimepoxekupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cq9h2mhjusscu9tmn9bfefv6h1/bemimesazutomovoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b0975bb02---34389778377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/tipaxujunibupixemibixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942209b1a43---88483619727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc3t94k7shqv6ibpggg1ddfidp/41545421534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/givukusavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2de02e8d906af2309ef7d897ea4da1a/27142790381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09bed7b746---91968902803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea694a2d174f9c1868af4eb7a1b7e24/samafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de07b2cfcf---zavoroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607882d5d3615---15945058689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5d9a881c3---55947605062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac44fca814c3dcf04583d1c145b1a65/90007546258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000dbcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCD 5660 bytes
SHA-256: d9908d57fc9fd0b89da9b33d9e72d64ffbf9b9b56804e08937f93ae12b4dd2dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE56 12940 bytes
SHA-256: ac53d6795963eddab3ca8d4cd5618033710950032907c4882f1bfc31007ee513
font_02_sfnt_off000115b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B0 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e