Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d155bbb8056766d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 845a6dbfe6f370e002836a11afc17056 SHA-1: f0f481e589a67891ada3db7c83635320de92d291 SHA-256: d155bbb8056766d3bb0160c0e20aa2743069017ee21338a3622ae0d825da85a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs used to lure victims to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://fazendasaojudastadeu.net/fotosempresa/files/savamawomugekis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346ee8da3db---55339435618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/98175719008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70593135602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/luvenapobulolilolijusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/38692023604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mufujifobisonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7dd45eb82---4448923232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/80691439942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/93598597528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/dorisobupuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/podazowadidotakexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/92309763153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/xutevofipanalirosimowipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161308eab2f537---82762139862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aap0abfiql8h.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobujotalivovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costarica4d.com/contents/files/6426641070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/vedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/6333114174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viktorina.ledoritulys.lt/files/29947810439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rudodepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gevenschoenen.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesikesulazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/74785060306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wideanglepackaging.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomawaziwixuwejabaxisili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/mexorerimizaneguvamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=watch+ready+player+one+online+free+123moviesPDF 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_off0000e44c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE44C 18168 bytes
SHA-256: f85714cc67cd23707fe95a05c1a0934082eb32194f79f7f8b95aa564d234dcba
font_01_sfnt_off00011355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11355 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6C 11400 bytes
SHA-256: e62a377c04ebbb68bd40fb335c86db3cf42fe9e86169a8a24edcc1f68ed7860d