Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d554d798e1fbcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-23 10:35:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 04b481a750c6d02654d6429c85a50fe1 SHA-1: 85b4bed472ba1d7986b31146d20d7408a7396dd1 SHA-256: d1d554d798e1fbcd7c6afda40ffc370713e2730a39d857fa9458acd97739c6d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://at2apigroup3.com/contents/files/63940509317.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/tewatobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/momabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2299eba03---gimufefevepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/jujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608265bed824a---zugimepafegolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhrm9sgulge4va5lgfd3g0c5jb/vusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/lalugimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608952f8a428c---81372357698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibawenunidofupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d16bc3cf9efa9016ff97c86341a9c0/79120725574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/14563924843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/86496793026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/13627710006110629b0504b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b85acaeff118bb88d279851227b93c1/4825125305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/87716834196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e722d7908ceb1c9bcb20264b9890fea/sukajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719e10667b3---38233409837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/39523053548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8532a4c81d---funopoxipeturofisefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27049059490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b438435de5---punijavupiwezuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c928c92d7a---1313964485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=gentle+soft+heartedPDF 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_off0000d115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD115 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 63624102d8b317c11779d89647035b64f158d370e170b7bb7d603814dfd01409
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B6 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 572de16a8d244fb3af63de356f6ac3dc9c24b33813f616be4c4213d5ab8ce623