Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d308682359bbdd43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:02:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 551d3c25f29e0ca50f3cfa47b40b842b SHA-1: 48eef953d9f3fb88c437c6f3739c2b6605212650 SHA-256: d308682359bbdd43be67bfa607c9e4666ab431e7ac0761637eb72edeb6f4530e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these linked resources. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies heavily on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/wonusafomige.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ee11cdbff---43638613967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/10867683572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ba99fabdea4f159b8dde4fd1386e14/93479120502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/95970448821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80842591a12c921ab0805ef78d538ade/finizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/luda8cradqj2dttffb3ndmdt9d/98070895254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32c713b473---50490188027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902efb83547---sixowodotem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079acfd200cb---geribixolanobogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71507505a9---87095399496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b00ac25778d990cbee9a8ad99140fa61/36464354984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160cfda83570ea---46206903850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79b12e0fa1544c2338cbba1e970194a/faxiwapizivewasiwumuvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/96488331975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview68.org/clients/c/ca/ca24e3df3ff7fa9b839de6c08aba9959/File/39243005546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b5016ed433fdc7a703272d86b37614d/repazoberomikisenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4c0lpoha874tj39mj6i9vfll7/menagafefepogixerifesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/16208273620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/tisixiviputimefinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/jaxuxovaropuwovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p7ll1i5fq23viiddm520t1n91/pakifevejanulesosuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/59675063953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/36427190369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/zazomuvonorefofetusiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=my+first+sex+with+50yo+mature+woman+while+girlfriend+not+homePDF 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_off0000f5b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B4 11452 bytes
SHA-256: a1f59d56f55b23f71e370de9b88465385fefeda9df095a98f53583f8649076b6
font_01_sfnt_off0001107b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1107B 17164 bytes
SHA-256: 59e89e5b4fd3c681f9fb3233acac58332af88106b7753f48f8adb7cc557a022c
font_02_sfnt_off00013cec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1