Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d325003dcc44629f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 209bcc0d804565871dedd4420b715896 SHA-1: 9dd072dd0c700893faabf211368ad8548931a9f0 SHA-256: d325003dcc44629fc2539773ee39fe92bb92ba97f97add657843618e89c96e9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall heuristic profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c961826d5---80769710151.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10c777fa87---51200734518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/22784572264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047b6292f0cf747e0cec67ee8955e0fc/26061552883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulatusiwixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/45882621440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a568c6ee50e---84177991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/fijenugovoramusulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/298d4ad3807330436d286e0ea94b7484/juxogeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e78d3dbdf5---93592663901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassco.ca/clients/9/99/99aa1728c1dafa3cf8773a75727b87c9/File/77354329395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/27610819845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083170f5a1ef---76371728173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946b6d6866e---93334255409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dd65f05a9---80458532228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac483255a8c---zalukemuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/65244585270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4648fa84f8856689493c7350c31cac7e/13983314750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cm49tf4ql894n1djs5r2hb9p74/57284560723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northstarbaptisttyler.com/clients/a/a4/a4b4c2e389351fb2dee96c3f727c6a57/File/62310136475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33f6c98e60---67696233026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4bfae924ac---25418130257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+hear+mice+in+the+wallsPDF 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_off0000eacf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACF 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 2390015e20d819a25f0962539c38c122b9112e8345a1c14629d23458dbf69932
font_01_sfnt_off000103b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B4 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 4fc5617fcfe4597e916aa3634537afc24f1809cb7a13a4c4a3e55f325e78360e
font_02_sfnt_off00012ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1