Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2d4726371b4f066…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:27:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 29b3fd42df01a5db3493f404b16ab222 SHA-1: 528bd4205e2b64beb6bbbbf9a905082f5d9697e0 SHA-256: d2d4726371b4f066d2f15eee903b8033d86278549920cd066cd69d61bf634f4b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/pidarigemovok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wahiclassof69.com/clients/874294/File/gatilewadikufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramkgres.ru/userfiles/file/75873369983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawunanujewebominebujapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/nomutozokilupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35879758132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3ee15b87d---78445322501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/xobijawaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vloh2o14iuru9huqj87jual492/61672623238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45622431563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897f796f48b---55808416246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/92992034101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fec2eb0af---vekibuwerinupadiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984c9ec197e---kilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856e67a8cc5---jetisalitazarisopoxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce8cf661e9---93825756375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021817728289158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608755c76459c---7551633668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xisudopilexizutinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/72860619666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/31474121328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c86057c96---18654706172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/lazosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nexadiwapibisibates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=dji+tello+instruction+manualPDF 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_off000105ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AD 21668 bytes
SHA-256: 5d72e2a8a775fbefb0a93cbc4f16480dc4e0e59cb478ea49ea7b9f97238ada01
font_01_sfnt_off00013e86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E86 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 64ac00d5f1e6d47b22b9ed68465b3dce2913ba426c6615490e62613c56da60df
font_02_sfnt_off000156c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1