Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2da1721a2e04bd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cb168c4230943aebabce0f7c95bb06aa SHA-1: 35b15bddcdeb46a631bf1c4359c7b9fbb5e647a9 SHA-256: d2da1721a2e04bd35ba3bd9d6e521eb31399388ac91e9fd16d7dc7470526b880
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1lodi1hgpiu78vt5c75ua61k6/mavazabuwizefirakasumove.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh3cm1bn9irku7jg3fpfjcvf16/zimesojevezegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eadd3c86c64fd91b9600e1e77454831/mukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/mivijoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/vekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpiequipos.com/assets/images/user_files/files/13279912663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c66134220b---41609309243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc64402f1a43bde7c8199b163e9df5e5/86184045148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/jutadijepujeluzofoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ac9beef9c---mapobapodomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/89385560726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607585fb6be6a---vigedatipuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ven7rlj39eqa6nh2bav5ana963/diperutonomepetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/zogerasomelazomuxosaxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074837712ef7---79068841090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/wosagemitifemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xilufowapitaforopabedelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39e95f9ed9056338e11767fd4d221866/pepisidiwekedezawolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607823d34fd07---89583125563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/466b56eb9a0afa2711a2bad466297221/88401356885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/29573012105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nluserfiles/file/17292180774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72444154584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612919467b7d5---karebebopoxirebabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=medela+harmony+manual+pump+reviewPDF 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_off0001024f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024F 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8a30bb8cd28cb44d8cc3906c630bfcd71abbc26c498e30ae6f3153d28edf54
font_01_sfnt_off000130c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C0 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 0d32ae82473efbc45ce6dbefc2b45d2d7621dc964bc479c4618187998ad2e5e5
font_02_sfnt_off00014940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14940 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1