Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d389d1b0d3e2d9c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 19:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4e2c028d855e005f6ac2e89188dd25e0 SHA-1: 907567bdeb8fe3de72de74133a4e8392fa882f8a SHA-256: d389d1b0d3e2d9c45ac3987c28b8d0c2e5c9af6791b0a7b5e537a4c6c101612e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL analysis reveal a link farm designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c734737dd5ebb1f33bfe66a05c3c2041/36655360192.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cozycornerexpress.com/uploads/files/lixejuvekok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2426e49f8572fff9d379e929a2add375/36223523562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f03817db458c200c4a439c540385952/ravapaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a7dfe4e49---peginevinupiterimabolenam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22eb149fb5dd16051d4a578b54a9dbed/wamewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/podenedonotipodese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/83752565957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e106091c9---89443710366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bf8258b53---82606216988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainfelderteich.at/18938737005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8420d6f4180e953ff039015dcf318d8/23550769442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/039c14afa0568a63ee94e10a80215b84/19547549061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/vujamozelujexubaxuvise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098878ac5c4d---42901756964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f21863226---68188319571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608615cbb2316---95232233833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/zawaxowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fag3paorbe0qms1pb3o06i0obo/85422589266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5qcto468sl0h5u5diak6h9050/58608990298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b269d44d539dda1953ceae5e2b9e70b9/wewenasodutejazubaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=student+centred+learning+strategiesPDF 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_off0001061b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2D 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 8fd36300f11f81bbd62c480bd6018608bfe72147ea6ad1cc0aed88851e76c94c
font_02_sfnt_off0001497b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1497B 10600 bytes
SHA-256: c52a9c9278c5f06a90e2f0e7217bb54983d7798234093a14f6f0606ae2a1d34b