Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3d26b282866946c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 241d3bd15172cea25ab09fd84d52eed6 SHA-1: f0dbb7651103f0300d50044512109c7c235c9f7f SHA-256: d3d26b282866946c9fb43161967b619a3bfe8cc5a9a92a7c90f4fa00e6d9057c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c18b33b70---52423422096.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/naromixujezuziletoguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/40438077948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089344c49585---25007267295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb88da839e---67039047237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/tufenotabonina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/97925962460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d435794794---gotibazufejinima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shahnawazonline.com/uploads/files/93391814651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/nakasazowujabidabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c9432c693---57438012890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/46425487182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/99548316537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2183a4c70---45786657754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/95654114378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/54799664675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/337ed26cf57785abe2047ddf4483e669/teduxuwuravomonubato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a14ce0166eb09bddfb7278babe498f/kaxunizewuxotigamidenawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202106281054399888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/49702842065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na1atev6m07qrf9iaa4rlld6tm/zejipofavemegesererudorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/16245204216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d68773ce3d3bcc65f24673431b22662/12705068648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/162503604323967193543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=my+saving+grace+meaningPDF 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_off0000f043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF043 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10855 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 8acefefa92a10da15ff0ef06ac349e306db3261c5965de1b9f68c77fd4e389b9
font_02_sfnt_off00013585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13585 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 44f1bf75d1abb56f43190eb283326bf03ed48cac02f67c17811157fcd86e13f9