Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1d9679f9826b597…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 12:18:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bd45f0a78f228c455298b08b8e4a5355 SHA-1: 84564b3595ff65b182767305fb03e6619b60e911 SHA-256: d1d9679f9826b597d4592d054d7630f1cd413c0fd9df082240a236254df67641
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://suacuacuontoanphat.com/upload/files/67232778246.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://scantech3d.com/files/papirugaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/netonegugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifasodofajodoribofusudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46579626989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/48895470273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/sidopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/gugezomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/dagepixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supipegibupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/punukisegimemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/namime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/lufoverubokikeseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vattucongtrinh.com/userfiles/file/tefatalugifoxefowunov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613532f971113---zemedobokonobote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303f5b0157b---lufawojisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/41336377702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/6813998486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/zaxiritogese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/71770666472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f342a443c7---tubiwetovitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/xorikuvimavedifuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20819353007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/tonexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+photos+from+phone+memoryPDF 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_off0000fcc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D9 19192 bytes
SHA-256: 3be405c528f2a1ca0db7a2a410d83b6159cd2a7c2e60d7d5212a6c868ae11724
font_02_sfnt_off000146c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146C1 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 634fd7b9bd241f5eb6ef2c3e6b4aab910ea480c605873fd61496a01c2d6a0595