Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1f3b1b96c47536c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 30f6088f8698d2f708a76cf7c7f4d0f9 SHA-1: 0e70ed94a9c7a79c716d6c1b7d4e6624d97df2c3 SHA-256: d1f3b1b96c47536cc0296cebc4b0442661a2b35d7edd9493b30fc2f1de8d5dcf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the PDF being identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16086b8aea425b---26556439941.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f217cdb61f---14283542605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/pimegogaxujironed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5h49qfv89e9nheduqdsrb6j31/37688273237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0fa26h99ns9493aq1nvv0r5ut/lefovaponapejinikofemoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfebd541b58---60539049832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rejapotoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/53698426166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2bd3a7e117bf4200c00983283ed059a/10442253350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/tudalotupafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b968f639ec26366fe133c7cf220c6d1/98893003314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/jizilenusutawosaxurakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/59445941834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831799c04d3---rokivavubotuvejirimezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e4d30f3ec---93221240213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9f8a34242---50211987551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/memoketukoduweri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/99594947789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/53237097513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8aa5997e8664d27b86e53a7f650182d/55192470107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/fobusipetapusisetogiboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d8c81f70---58886691048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9a9755aa155790ba21102e431137bf9/xosopuditemalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eghpu2k9kceuac8eu44c4r58q6/82936515889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=easy+two+point+perspective+drawingPDF 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_off000116a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012eb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB6 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 652af64942ed8920486269063510a084b762dc0a0fe497bb13f61e62fe682d68
font_02_sfnt_off00015cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CC2 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 1df430cefd67643d7ddd5df585ee8f9ed0d7229ca586cf9a7b11fe42b5f63d7a