Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1396341090c59b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:44:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5c8dafff87ef065e9b256e57eb100401 SHA-1: 913519aef4a57b40709d4f95a73dcff802d2a449 SHA-256: d1396341090c59b6ee78d9da3fe368d64bcb34ad0475ea4c5fe9f2a413272542
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting confirms a pattern of obfuscated redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowilonarexuzufaporex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/84350102761126c3eae96f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/50399875741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuzupawevomerirogegabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3848fcd832---37753352820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/guzesawutavaxujajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q39nl9dc2ehqtstvpmd29rius3/dulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/30723719882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/12670350262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/33812817659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/94706484015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhehrj6qsqdvegmm2njs299k66/nijulebigome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/vafepemixapopavema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295ab79b2b857c9996c56689604151f5/kepazafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24b27cd37a4e7634650e0d2755d471ef/bezunivexobasazepivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/rowimefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bddca5aaf3b---zukoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed3ea6f246---xipomopibisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotrackusa.com/fckedit_file/file///20210903_19_4_56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l799k4l7059c6822bcfmul54u2/foxemozikixibawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/sowaximumamodejilikudifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f911dad147732d36e43a5f031870208f/60867739908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb20c6096bfd5d9c9a6cef207a10d03/501411226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54483617818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=carl+jung+dreams+memories+reflections+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10229 11224 bytes
SHA-256: b0dc4d7f8ac727c6b8310f851931047d1934635c6b28aeea524360eb00a78d54
font_02_sfnt_off00011c3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C3A 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0da4f4a6efe6320d340bf3323ed746faabb18d1adc36ba7f30ee4709604e65