Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d371c931f4b5e99b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 18c21786311b08b1337612e246746289 SHA-1: abb97008d2f0ca62366eee4f1e4636d6c446b53a SHA-256: d371c931f4b5e99b683d554cdf1d07e4410c4f153651aa5973bca7add03e48a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing campaign aiming to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dea7284dce---wuzebeso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c36718b700---93910092154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/jijavojesikatuvuxiwogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/75849998527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/22483196190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/xazifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94596280451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/polafegezivonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/32823130177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamphuhiep.com/Images_upload/files/60681987632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://porterbrothersltd.com/app/webroot/uploads/59871366627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/wovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/2444349634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/bunaxabenevuxejome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c091ab8c088---25147524960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/16180359986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/55576773881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e116fd5812be86db4050e8cc78225ce4/zupefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loxagemedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calendarsunrooms.com/userfiles/files/wutukigonedaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourcampuswindow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98988944501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/87306805036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=public+finance+n5+notes+pdfPDF 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_off0000f0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C5 19448 bytes
SHA-256: dc33d4ddf44ab338b0b843bdef541b683a054fba3f1ddc1d1e5234fe54fc6cba
font_02_sfnt_off00013c30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C30 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 673583957c038b53f76908f727cf8c250fd366629ebfd64c2e3f2e2930690423