Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d65d1620ddcef96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:56:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f47e99d67138c72287a387e7fb19bd1f SHA-1: 642d817850abe55e65bce602cdf052f92c643aaf SHA-256: 1d65d1620ddcef96ff8856346afda442c1b75273b31feb6e576c9f1ef5df54e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a phishing attachment to a link farm that hosts further malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a75bfac7fd---45131891080.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jofazagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/61967484450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9162c649a0499fd286a9c100b3b361b6/sizezozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/27310785833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91f593834---zekilamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4046c6810c---dojekimixamavowugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardenofsound.com/userfiles/files/91064699838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tech-sub.com/userfiles/file/retaferudokewaxadofabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/muxefajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c970473f96e---noremulivebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a596b91e2bdc6a7233ca6aad3f58b6/xomeginuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210623163003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/60268289391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/nurafosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b304d1ed10230aa9be07a0f876a350/29345419521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/21822212919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/89508049539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/54209028026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/jizijosenexoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a602110b1f8---jikenibonolibegipidevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/69501065513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106cadf6bf0e---lipixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/vesovepofapevevivadume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=adding+png+to+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_off0000cc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48B 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 6422cdf34fe8d67e204ee129ef452967318da6472dfce39a8b8edc4f90afaa2f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB4 16268 bytes
SHA-256: 04cef3196f969b95281acdcd62ca58fbd6a08019ea321d6d8b4bcf50cd066be2