Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d00dc1d4fd50cfe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-01 00:45:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e7b550069194da12b5e4411c510b5588 SHA-1: 527a70672d1fc0b230059feb64409915228aee9e SHA-256: d00dc1d4fd50cfe36ae5d9ab9b511d81a8474d48d2d8b8a999b1c4ddeebe952c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using compromised infrastructure to distribute malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad83e773ff6---xapowugajokuzo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155eb2a3b942a7805ec1e6a5bb82b253/59766338080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094732169766---44135946430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/61967589665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607716f07433c---61715158679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents//files/fideditesiwesitezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/dojaxubuxevikeritebesorep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b524778a430---49374083679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/digigusikuwavirixemirodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75729c9481b5a8e107ce38da66f5922b/denewadupumiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbafjvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fajelexinanozasaviwana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607718cd5287f---netasovogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/siriwajumivuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/lusezilimurabubuparuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a653ea0a4a0---91675283795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v808d23rhhs21bkh3c8ki4ldv7/14454762573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulfsupremesa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15164897809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be722c2761863e04d037c9746879fe0/49472718723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23e4ab2885---71754748916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c33252eed---bozidokujanukapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/28255895686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1366372b2---zikuvedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/zowogowosemutogevopuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+make+money+on+smulePDF 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_off000103ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103EE 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 520f8a1bdc715623931006834e760cbfb6670824671cbb7ff9d3ee400601ce91
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001334f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334F 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 04db899884bd4dc50ce40b2746ebc0f81a3b9d7d0b41a4a261e87cd7bd5ddc9f