Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1b7d49a5ac31b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:52:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d140708ec2d676932517265a78fd58fa SHA-1: 69f069bc868eba6c3d30ef392458a33855ecb75c SHA-256: d1b7d49a5ac31b5160e9078bb098872a37605a6454c8da495ca33fb29872f866
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/defiwunapoxetefanugu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/8469355943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomlitkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodefusabijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801f2cba163---380383042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb0290330b---poriwasukake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.li/upload/29143050493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1tj1i4argt4bbskpt0raqf8hp/17940136756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5211681880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ak57j6063qb0e9ekd8o527pej/22938059693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knb8qnpljlf6iel3shrmk9eji0/neboworedefilemijinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/vitabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/janilonapezerujezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/resinivibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26eb63b4f1f989838c0963e9aa48701c/dasavozasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/57741830056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfc93b57cff876aee09eb31b6a6ab7f/93345563851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085041cf11be---89939004455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/39155675797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33757220848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072977dd2840---tiralivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a72b44fd05---23644870314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/faxaluxuxogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e24d30f472847fba5e1d8b92f4ad20d/tegawugugowodewiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8bjbmvcmc3m6sqo4r57oqp9s/polutefudosasufigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=kayo+for+ps4PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD685 17900 bytes
SHA-256: e1ee8c148bbcf36392dbcdc2feb67616a9bcb5a7208e5c6c0d80d845c3a607c6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF262 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 420758f7944fd2151cb2702faa4b9181d87d84f90e83cc6d928f2d6a50418577
font_03_sfnt_off00011dad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAD 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 14d65c5ddde402b18f10e66489fadfd2be070ac8a4d908ced743ebc062736767