Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d72037d68f7ec5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

156.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 18:48:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c42733c723ca2bf0df90c4b6c6cb9a21 SHA-1: acbe556fc445bd7662089accffd121c5e2822fc3 SHA-256: d1d72037d68f7ec5b99064789ea240c5130d755cf3f36be7d975f98a6e25382c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=polyunsaturated+fatty+acids+chemical+formula PDF link annotation
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/gojuroruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fba3905049d8963e2054e4bfca57de67/xoxidosiwomujafaxugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cdc01fbb7720718333015b52f802e12/kemeguvijibujuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf7d9b5e66c---42148847443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610281b7dd22b---59420578349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/nakejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gisifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/140915664160cb8c5948d89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/29014355537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/16229683962006303076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/44077157423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a91c651b2---dowavewokimepuxanifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe63017e02---tizixifamuninasotitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47765768b300fc50496ffaf69dcbdc89/ribisetubozezajesofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltoplancers1975.com/clients/13753/File/pokinopupiwifukiwetonudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/58674260996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents//files/fulagatulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cepsagibyachtfuels.com/images/photos/wabavujifawixezuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/ruvusirewerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/34080743812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757eaf37493---96920699567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327c5fa1292b5ff8f1808a7f90337850/vodoxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e089c608d32---43823492717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvmnotarissen.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/27539180233.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_off0001fb4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FB4F 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 344467f01f8c390f1815fd7b2aaa4402f70688062de288f72ddda24a2f65d5e1
font_01_sfnt_off0002149e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2149E 20728 bytes
SHA-256: e5e734936215c9990496ec3c69b75bc67c5a6d0348258f13f97b3a18812bf96e
font_02_sfnt_off00024a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x24A0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1