Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1f3d4d194c616ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:50:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7a7ef229eebb9304fa96a952f0003811 SHA-1: bd3d8b7a6cdc2026655be3d0bb926d35c885eaad SHA-256: d1f3d4d194c616ad9e37df728ff834960b5bf59557474c75701c5d6bdd29e510
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest it is designed to exploit user trust by appearing as a legitimate document while leading to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=super+lectura+veloz+carlos+quiroga+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d7ae3dc8215da30348cabb03c39d46/12341863391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c658adfb7---66709001190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff5fcbccd4---88562982663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707f824b1b7---nikaxuwegebiwamuleseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trvstore.com/userfiles/file/koweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/3155530397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb1b284a9e---93948058721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607983ce31f51---kudedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/tinib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parisplaza.net/clients/3/35/3561a7ce45da2f2f114a98ea6175a4b1/File/wobotadokoraruwojisuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/78278192077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fb32d9ddb---72683740090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/54334489721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ad1d650b1---baravananewagalisoviwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/gezusexezovijaniruzozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/nunujimazedowomodadarugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f640dce87982055eb62ca423cf510df4/fozazozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ace5359cdeb1ac3fcb30ffe8f44e6c/6513985873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b874f33ce2---39341435016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609170d3ae0e3---dorolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c10899d2cc79c423a6351992fc687ef6/jekisagaroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoniwiginupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/rakupavije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6eafb91800fdd36f336152a7d56f83/kubewuwufojojuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d643219c87d---xarapa.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_off0000c0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0CF 18536 bytes
SHA-256: 1519d4ffe7facc02a691d3d9ba5aecb6540dcc801910285dbca1472d96b3f173
font_01_sfnt_off0000efa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA1 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6f73aa08dc66f41335eb53bbc4b3660bd17a4d66cda91d595a4e5911f08c0f
font_02_sfnt_off0001094b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1