Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d066d28d5d768f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:25:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 37d29f07b8531b54bfbcaae30987f371 SHA-1: 591dd81b449df55aabb72f5a312e0d349260e791 SHA-256: d066d28d5d768f099b2d47d4169e58410b6aa8f1cab7dff10983e050a3cad87a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate it is likely used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+organizacion+y+funciones+de+una+empresa+ferretera PDF link annotation
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/88032692767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210518010615136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea0b615e83---69842717488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/varaxodutari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43588936448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/riluwojako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fdc6568ce---wogarufunisilunuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/vidatufixiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdc6427059---vovaxakejutodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9rr5v2ic1uqcar04447lupjiu/79481406241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/geguwazanegivunuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4255a22eb8c8f5cebe1c3cb964a0e98d/38685243417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/kiboxesivuzagevagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7ae938175---vojisugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe461e667ae846659706e5693f1b1893/pasedenakorigupasigotede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/78964748592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ff42488facda2a26523a55c6af4d1c/falojererada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102bfc8a02b8---gezidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.instituteupload/content/file/sidarogavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59293d0aa575264215d94679397a144/dekunapewezodamozexibovev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisnomor.com/contents//files/76985631113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/73340852090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64s7v5hd3h0i52vksq9rdqb254/58313982610.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ff4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF4A 20612 bytes
SHA-256: 98ffa90b019288258a209e41488afe91ac9fb741aa1b1409fd28ebdab346f8ea
font_01_sfnt_off00013411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13411 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 7279fbd0580c0a6b3de4808beeb0e6a12272b304cf3472d516ebfbdccde89b4c
font_02_sfnt_off00014e31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1