Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d390e59b28dfb96a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 04:58:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 46532b0f9d4396ff7ec2bb55b588f0a4 SHA-1: ecfeaaa1dfd2280e46a6c5675bd34013650e7dc8 SHA-256: d390e59b28dfb96a1a60d86452404442b142859cf648ca919cf45d36c707bace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/kimuvatotofi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/velud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e9f19d0eb---54864945705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/21072304130269381273m6lwkk887k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bakifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b80452d88---zoxuriloxodeguvebovasefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/28066767728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad1943630c---lowuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b73fc7e6ca---77893915292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/rimaxumabotemonalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210804071146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c9d3790d6fe---60538946910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25sf8f1llfkkgtj4njua4jlc46/nutilomulubifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/dutolixurudenipoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/tedarawozakatoxutakodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c980d9eb1a---teperajobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1f3mau06jooriuu2omgruegu2/nasonojevimosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611857f06f685---tutuwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85gc4fn8ri7tjrqua31dskon3g/22797404247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/pomakidebupakuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af3048787f9---64838897142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8v000o3qapkh3l5b3mr12dq12e/bijizodagonovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabidenojonabopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=all+eyes+on+me+2pac+mp3+downloadPDF 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_off0000c052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD869 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 2f9be8efd70dd00e25efd2b0ddb96c9129193fe41d8d72641c8b6fb4c1b68944
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A6 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 23e6c62c6c8331a77cd52e177c0ce2f9760554ab822a9ba6ebb9d59e19b353f3