Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d54fc646b7b2eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-23 22:44:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 53717980179f7096aef98bac4bd92e7f SHA-1: d1495fb5518c6d27f15575423411b7256ed42d3b SHA-256: d1d54fc646b7b2eb01f6708dee5198ac8cea2cbe24be8f2496df501fb4904d26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to download PDFs from compromised WordPress sites, disguised as a free converter tool. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e33e8a2c9becfaeca4e5d6fedd41cd/1069238003.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/4569267412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/fabikutafuzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac3f5ec5e0---jakixazunenedotedarave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/moxawemepibikawugirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek7rrps1nterm3lah9bh7sr7aq/8339616585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e38f1c3b9---mibogavapifebuguzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75167e35a78aa5960a8ee8ddcb051aad/fenemulewokasiwasamajosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c9cb45dbcefa46063a206a7ff0075e/nelonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfb307d285---14147781643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0e3d2d2278f79fce33932d92fe4c52/rifit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzemeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95l2ih701700grr5jaiulnv447/xidomuwofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4214u425pdhr1llfe4t2gblkur/gunekorasisotekasuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/95055514451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adcbc61371---48152249695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=converter+pdf+to+cad+free+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3EA 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 19bfa3184642958fed63e2f7000a3c1d8bb13916d8d507e48466e4fd516cd62e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE527 14336 bytes
SHA-256: 1d84b7ddb5a05d6532dadc8d85340360fcc54f6eb2a1d55916683de9477bd110