Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0d8a47db227c5ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 11:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dcc6131b7fa2138e820c8e2a3fe6dfd9 SHA-1: 0092e138fd99c5e71d3ba9b2829a596429ee1b9f SHA-256: d0d8a47db227c5ce477a2b5e0da78eccb287d54daf6cffaced7865ca1ab88684
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of an attempt to exploit users via external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dynasty+warriors+4+10th+weapons PDF link annotation
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf74d0e298---69892676530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609452a41d907---xevizibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5e9ca8f058b15be1dba66c80159c48/27050868127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab457049f8---vakamapida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946641284a3---zukuzazanurefoledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cb2e8107eb0572f94fb92b83382cd97/28670224448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/25807247159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b964b3c21a409f64d9da5ace4dce7872/18404553123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2b0b7e69b---43439122128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/35968650427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a03d5c935a819734c746cfaeb57213/zikajusabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2534c2978b---31079089547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep8ili7ph6gp5ttisif8q9h6b4/41560730651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24acb2e71cf4742b7dc345a8b4a45c67/firelonomevitovamas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544d5871dcb7a9263ef4370deaaee2b9/zakogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac69798bc1---22180844676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd726c597b2---60998565760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/to2piv5mmv1rabavulm5mpj8l2/tixurugawefexeniveromorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/13107277706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c14d05f9f6---rozezowegoduwafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/50575089504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/xevesiluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity69.com/clients/861769/File/33149847049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xdata.pl/app/webroot/img/ckf/files/xusamowivowevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/monap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/bufudibez.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_off0000fff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001180e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180E 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 569247f5fb950e3769b486376542859765f2def2b93218c7fd95c37bd6d51670
font_02_sfnt_off000130e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130E8 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 8d2e0ac57727320bc10f8cecdc5d6e0541321ab4c7bda29c19d478526b89e328