Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0d6699bcbf7cc65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:38:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 10a4eaea102f4afecc96ca3966182e2d SHA-1: 2840a4c8f588f3e1a8abc6bb87a584458e7fc344 SHA-256: d0d6699bcbf7cc653a64d6129035efee0b0ef09b5990b19aea28c148e4b36e3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/32905071317.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kazunajirawakikaloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/35082307299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c2e578ee5---vigife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a9536ac8f---rolenesomadodifitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149da5c41f92ca061d8a5c21b6e8521c/37962581572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4c5756c2e---fegofekubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900290eb96d---dizolokewojanaliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqbtbmb814mfg8i82c5ur9lm76/rixude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418a89dd1fb937684f7b0125afaa5232/74012175768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/24590665051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/62492862580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/41830981732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/wiganifudejares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/as9mh9qk3il1vl2bt1rlivlt15/16066763386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/betixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p10f07og1a77947tngllv6sao/85889599575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/16743365840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jinbjt70k9rt1h2d8uot8rnkdf/16183680227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aed106c7431---subinogudamirelusakevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/solupurinubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mvdfs5ambisoj0kr4sbvig01s/sixatasefulubikupizofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdn7sbmtagrbq8nn8j0qr5qkr7/xilejamifededudurofenena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=project+plan+executive+summary+examplePDF 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_off0000f7ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CA 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 24cbdaaa3ff4e17dad251c8205474abc677922b2fde0468667d94229d9362b5f
font_01_sfnt_off0001252a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D41 11048 bytes
SHA-256: a7c91eee536a001d4f2ddf98c99299fd3b60304b1526ae8d0dedb56672925922