Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dd07847c74eb460…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 14a2954ac77b3e6d29e0106bf9e9f02a SHA-1: bd00e4de91608097bcafb3f7afda5172f56e486f SHA-256: 1dd07847c74eb4604cdd78c424e37995937a84cf4280e6151424454ed014f69e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://interiorsexpress.biz/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/82780018366.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807a6f00e38---68555756012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamquantri.net/upload/files/zagenegowepaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodama.it/userfiles/files/94011980366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobefekakupuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20792562d9---jezopizazesilubegaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynotary.ca/sites/all/sites/mynotary.ca/files/73405653798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1147df972---26187695147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonolabofigigebutamegegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109010048098205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/28795773201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpscrm.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/deseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9g0kcckad7f3d5du59221o9buo/lelunojijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/75682959389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56414d92be---fipaxasiwaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2cc84e637---padetesesesekupusimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37905911845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14841774501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a193c30ee---jedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9abfcda62---28201803258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/29984956665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbbswalkforkids.com/clients/c/cf/cf8d0549bdc9bbdffca8bc0db9808b96/File/47286198656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=critical+reasoning+assumption+practice+questions+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_off0000cdee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE605 11240 bytes
SHA-256: bc9a611de439e6e4bae487bf25b6660931d966bbffeafda2dc11a7c1956de987
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD7 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 7ad09d2e474ffb7676dd5906d43486d3e1121392299b3131231bdc89ef345473