Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 629560d72bc6a4c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:15:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d18a318e8ca9a389eb3c7386a129c56d SHA-1: cb196a8e744489dbf66c7fcd2d0bf60e872b17b8 SHA-256: 629560d72bc6a4c60262142986c4eeed93c985c72f9f450f305e2d1e20bf323b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this, as these are often abused for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/93049293510.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/liwepimopegiporoposipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsolisp.com/files/file/81655185710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/65068650134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/78740648038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/kovipobuduba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/73966039972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/29094850935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/25936556038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310e5e438d3---44433293401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bizifadexisupuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/26065971786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/pimolodoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/gipufibiripupowigusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tivofusofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea0ccfe67008f9939cf7b3f200e88086/sejagijowuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupafurman.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/leruxolikureturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808af07cff5e1961949f12ae5fa36c1c/tonenezojebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/71627946806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/sukudadisow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+alchemyst+nicholas+flamel+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_off0000be86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d698.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD698 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 07838ea63a25d00516fca15ffcc6cd41c3e859f465cc7257e42020295947650e
font_02_sfnt_off00010200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10200 10864 bytes
SHA-256: c490dc8a49d3a99342b8f5a8283d518855aaa7c6d8e2104463dc983398d2eff8