Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1b435a2cf46834e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:53:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7b1881e033ad54107d8b37a6a8ba9133 SHA-1: f0f16c9bf0c9c1260716cf533d0a0877d97427fc SHA-256: d1b435a2cf46834ee8d55f6493998201ee6c314e63d419d421a5171bf07fcd92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple links to potentially compromised upload directories reinforces the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d20c7350858fab0ff111e5ec9167ac55/84042953258.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29048184999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/41541074245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d0652d4adc52939f1bbbfaeaa03403/40155132654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d7c6620f2---buzukuzobuwekinupinokades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdacable.com/d/files/62193079643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53d0dd9025---72713850429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/70862898756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regcureguide.com/files/files/bajavekuxijerosexumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9455fd408a---58947663810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e13bf10c5---mevudarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_2D9ACE8D0DA38430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/53974237598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba02c99087513083c213d132f972102/vutezaragupefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/62664004913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiu-hang.com/upfiles/editor/files/bogezivorutajorafepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c05e67996a---37814599311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/mikinelebanomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firmabudowlanawalczak.pl/web/uploads/files/gojigurizuxabanoresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15246f39288061566ba7b282c8951d65/jabixegepinona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2652e1304f5ad3609d4945cf3e793587/mulisixinugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d64335f4049d9d2e85399d34c078554a/guwunazenukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611072842560c---dixukoxikumetulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82b2b0b568---18754272512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087812c06eb5---58650609610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51759353823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=diagnostico+de+haemophilus+influenzae+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_off0000dd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD16 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 8ee986f66b38429eb82c717e5cda5785a7e7f5665a6a0971cdfb7cde7084b37a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC4 17712 bytes
SHA-256: 22f044d2de3f4e42832aeb70478c46aac1e2ddf077941c139fdf86e20f848398