Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d380c46e2d9a0dac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1d24f5cb59b8b7f03d19667fb4537a45 SHA-1: 5c5fe0d7c99122c6b27656ea885d3389332bf73e SHA-256: d380c46e2d9a0dac1094818d287c614422ffe7060ef320dcee8736760515722c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. This pattern suggests the document is designed to lead users to phishing sites or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/76644296227.pdf
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/timogo.pdf
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/nexerow.pdf
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/4464704486.pdf
    • http://purifoy2020.com/clients/1/11/118d8b7ee1ea4bab8fb19da95c56260f/File/63500654834.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e7e324bd2---96656066521.pdf
    • https://sandipkumardutta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xadozejizidopapovi.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92810e1d1a61a89fb32b0e330aabf898/31757299687.pdf
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/6280210538.pdf
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/jowekemukipobuzimewome.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6576653b5a---sowatewokotosesepekawel.pdf
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/49855692305.pdf
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/54013795000.pdf
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/jefavupevimave.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c87542e73e---lukesovamaduragamoxijexu.pdf
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/tobopamupaxob.pdf
    • https://unitjaya.com/contents//files/wepizojodixaxixemupal.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/bufasasureduropo.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ca77b68331bd04198c337c073dab4fb/42892930996.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70b95f221e801c3977b73c266bbe6433/dotivosobagirebevudavav.pdf
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/14918882289.pdf
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/14341501661.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ready+for+first+certificate+3rd+edition+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce37.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE37 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e64e.bin
5fc02caf0d12751d5e60e59dce24802471b211638433841f32442623c7e469e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64E 10896 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffad.bin
1abbb617f0ce268606937cb720f311bf34d451d4ba04862327e293302437211e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAD 18112 bytes