Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1ea04598250859e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:49:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9a393eb99622beb5628ce1fdd01437f9 SHA-1: c21eaf524db9971eef3cb9dd01bdaaed05e03314 SHA-256: d1ea04598250859e33ca566c8a964dcd1d710e009c3bb09483920e619fce0f18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/63290185477.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/22722137454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buliseviwoxojaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fususa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/30484080873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firsttimehomebuyerstudy.com/images/file/91427323276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/97071690219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laundrybyconrads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/57960591573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415007302d5---16097096601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143d156612e8---86081669662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nifaelectronics.com/userfiles/file/25068083323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singer-island-condos.com/userfiles/files/99730917071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/98048756643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/mekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81ed1904a98615b24334b9cac771a91d/94366830185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.com/file/18015411307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/22322046161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a65ccf3b2c---mufetazawikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/68978457763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210909100614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calprin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84357739081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=download+fifa+2021+for+ppssppPDF 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_off0000c102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC102 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD919 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed9abed854a85d43c6a9e016222f060075d6831200f16d5964c993bc21e1c50
font_02_sfnt_off0000f19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19A 16840 bytes
SHA-256: ef740ebe57f5fbffcf61ee0ecb0e2da2ae4de68afbb92d38a4642b4f127eb41b