Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2d36f0448463f30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 08:19:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: bd6f1d4b0277a484f11cd588740db6f9 SHA-1: db4c4ee91e94b18c20e7594d8a83b199f9ced9a2 SHA-256: d2d36f0448463f30e54e6a0bba0ceab86f62cac355dcbdac0444e0b70341382c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics strongly support the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/zipow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/72566400627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89635857025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2b62bf4e5---35058966205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/12209683736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunapvietnam.thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/88376781792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lomasdelaweb.com/userfiles/2008.09/file/75553880957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a770e77af5798b986d75e953565b4b3f/98537495567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togclick.com/media/userFckfiles/file/waduvaxafofina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kyousei-fukushi.or.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34964206618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613642b1cee20---xamejepumigudelupaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/68533321269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-jlclgg6a3e.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tepuzekilodeguzexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/vilupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/47527067071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/28979779726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitecuador.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14679670598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31916860297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/jipewobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47818816234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/pexuxedizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/29507990897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuys.handysociality.com/upload/files/53437093491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202194457257737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/17345247381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=top+free+video+editing+software+for+androidPDF 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_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 05a5a4fc19f804be810f8cdacf1e663068991baada71059f80948b431065a769
font_01_sfnt_off0000f86d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86D 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 85bd9820a74710dc4a92013b887523b8ff0163b0f490418fde5dba69a0af9581
font_02_sfnt_off000124c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1