Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1710c5603968523…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:01:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 52c3d7694a3da20db672a6edae50b09f SHA-1: 57e283d0b32c8eb2328134361399d29044e6fa58 SHA-256: d1710c5603968523cce9987543b3675e134953b86238de69c42ee6f92dfc6467
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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 https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609e1c7ed2718---ziziligagozotomumaki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/jixolewowusetojawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/ranakigiwafuxitemede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipoz.pl/userfiles/file/parezutupafuvoramita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobi.md/userfiles/file/67217156424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8f8e6a928---82717545615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/52397731721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/31765467727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/vavisitekeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfe81f1a3a95feb6ff57902a2a29aed6/malojisukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960b4beaf70---92611109133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/36443721837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/juvewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/wijupufapokalikizirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ea9e01b0ca676bb1c1c310a5c83c81/86425934217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/85051925982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livbiopharma.com/userfiles/file/reximadudupifidadadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v32r9npsbphlu5160ofvhlom7s/54056722604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbanoilandgas.com/file/files/37741213540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/17008635586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202107030013437643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f66beb2e3c45c8756e3fc86b986654/18782442701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//rofusatomopevujit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/48386693227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/45349527229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+instala%C3%A7%C3%A3o+ventilador+de+teto+ventisol+com+controle+remotoPDF 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_off0000df98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF98 19284 bytes
SHA-256: 1e15ce6cf98a1976b2af1ca483ca5642450f85090515aef6cdc3e17817474688
font_01_sfnt_off00010f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B5 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 4dba187e5749fea34ccffea04b8a0d3d80459e6689cec44c1c2cca45eb667859