Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2819150ffb35f4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 713f6db7083db6ed7da5f2b2aace733b SHA-1: 7f89fd7cdf77a900a21d79d34103768aa9c03c23 SHA-256: d2819150ffb35f4d9c89e2f5b26196a455e941bd4b4370b868abbf15861734c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30022892808.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/97417550510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c4e907e91---zijuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/5470908284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c0f706d9b---47878326743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021073000581073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96878111795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092554c11ed0---99958779381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/22606656824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaukiaplinka.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99627204148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jafra-com.at/userfiles/file/lajani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/gijakifibanawurupek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/15865086100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee77bad4d91c3c9a68ef46f43ee80960/27904190473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89fa06860c---48204127870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608265027fdf8---41738948170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60885536609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/68405289991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/gadowikekaxefejusiwupola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce84f6236d268edb2b295c565d0c2e8e/26612028804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/17541922842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/rizopokupupugiduvefoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/43238301142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur4fi0fav8bipu7jprhsutfvmp/30370668827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72976551392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=planning+design+and+construction+of+healthcare+facilities+pdfPDF 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_off0001485e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1485E 18708 bytes
SHA-256: 2b5ccadfd429e138c49714a3a0e0853e81b1666e6e71f449c0dd1cb043e59579
font_01_sfnt_off00017861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17861 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19078 11000 bytes
SHA-256: cd805debaffb0bc37fd3f7cd2ac04b2ed6f63685463d8ecc63f30ef70ba2f160