Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d118a8ac18a26f35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f57bd730e621daf9afc8fcfb10e92aa7 SHA-1: 1f221a963e3d83771f5927c17388d448921b11d7 SHA-256: d118a8ac18a26f35a93915999e42e43a7e5a4cce09afc93ed94365e54b620b2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd7af3713e4---wabuzijokerido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brenderup.ro/mm/file/pegisajefabusima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/balivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/vudagenopebatazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/61653300445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3dnsdmv55pc85grjs441kpl31/32451540714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/34772777702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e0ddcee42---71479925602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/bowizusezonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/vopofififebobileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloshoppingnepal.com/userfiles/file/kenavawejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1f6ca8696---mowotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmfconnected.com/clients/6/67/67cd703e63b47da0cba1438f70967d25/File/73466563738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a3a1dd0fa2286a9c7b6fddc603bc94/28851896204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aff3f41a67---75842548246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/dibiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/3771622301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/domekabowiponerevaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/80839180364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b269d0ca66a---nonokobope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088457f6d72a---xufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.de/userfiles/file/86571295599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/46273760171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stratford1980.com/clients/1/19/19838be1bbe5684469623718d5e25b5d/File/sozesikonajusumigixinaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=algebraic+expression+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/jarodazikovimupezi.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_off0000ba2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA2B 15560 bytes
SHA-256: 46e8662ece72bbb86dbf32a2111df1d43440e69080d48ae702160149f6682833
font_01_sfnt_off0000e23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA54 11352 bytes
SHA-256: c7561122c219d6b3746fcfd71be2530cdc3e7e67e16c7612ee54b1e9e8d2b333