Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1bb5f373de27e6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: eeed8cabdfb225699ea2ef5340874673 SHA-1: c9b9442a9e6ae6304b01a4e683ecb97b0d78e162 SHA-256: d1bb5f373de27e6e22a6dedb7c036e975e77fe029d3399cf133207620a42b0bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other 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. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure points towards a phishing or malicious redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hbr+tools+goal+setting+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6afa46b86e318a0caf3cd7cd73e22d30/1255901821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609727587ee9f---duropedeguwokone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svm8c5g872kk1a47jfnlai6j46/7378864326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/76496540050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/97980308208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2541272876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/9201578569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a599e919a20---75539289699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/83940923523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/55728095825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a79948ed7---vutuzelewosalekonimulunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88821145421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/sirizimuguninuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e164f5e95d60ae99f080ae1908a782d/gipixazefowupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608124fcb9712---tixewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletmodguru.hu/files/files/18393195153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/gezazexabefazoguzelipal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/24126479795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burnettefamilyreunion2021.com/clients/867108/File/giguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///61145226060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnadlu2c8kv1fi8pv8fth58l1j/12161696662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f46109bc94---xefizelabopimixotila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5207912a27---girorezokaduzarolojani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f2af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AF 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 214ae6bbf7f0620fca971f856a2a3fae1b1805617c410e6fb67d09cd229d8695
font_01_sfnt_off00010b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B35 18128 bytes
SHA-256: 08a30fbea057f654aabdec5948c037e4f8a55d4879bff55595f9b0e6c9662e09
font_02_sfnt_off00013ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1