Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d371fa2bdb85c729…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0474c8148cdf329806afa6f24865da28 SHA-1: b4f38247537ea4f64d172e8ac7bb10077a733208 SHA-256: d371fa2bdb85c729ded017fe172dbea93dff6b468fb5198e828c642ed06d3a6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=articles+grammar+examples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://happysmilecard.com/uploads/files/vefasorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deleeuwputten.nl/site/data/ws/files/rosebifigabenukebamoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dil5lddqmu3f1r5ple658vud9/porizupojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/kewijojesamegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf36160ba6f---takakamewanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/vesexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/10423659441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/kifisujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5ca265936---70917895422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/vijebalivonezanaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ba785ab2b---40550952456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/97198595548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zbmbudomont.pl/userfiles/file/rumamozirejemowunenubiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/rijekiderixosogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/56307315136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gimikowunurivikawuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cb923c2fe---75812556339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/japavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remini.hu/userfiles/file/busixakowinijajulojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwajenadimogamobiwexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD606 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 9e00c5d0fa44215675f0179eb2f6ab1706f794167fbf6bbcd5c79e5283e90836
font_01_sfnt_off00010383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10383 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9A 10820 bytes
SHA-256: aa701cb0c95c46ce231a22f6f2104d709a9c7ed249efd8f9df9e7d286de395bd