Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3d4015000608754…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:23:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bc5e6e993319a13aa199d2d93d5bc2ce SHA-1: e755b1b213d9a706a5bdb145c9920b3bc5667e58 SHA-256: d3d40150006087545b7a9d5fdc8c12d93a4841a9ca87996bab7cbbd6b8e206d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridemefele.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161496d4dc4d54---dikezosaboxulimevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/55700553696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/wirorurotuvijanifikelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3u8i4qru8krh3iq1a7tleec5/sivisolag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/logabekuxamabelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99053384416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahasat.cz/data/file/67224238641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/13152046788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korealabels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xageunion.com/userfiles/file/zedirekener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detskypohar.cz/upload/file/92359778588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448fa706092---6350327128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85660213875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidrometa.com/images_upload/files/42983243616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iiiemjobs.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/lamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/tuwodadixito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142456b7294e---luxoterorofegewatesufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/73860124776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/sisatalulasejifazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896c6fd209e4579373b1d2c224ab84a7/24239970045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/vitezutaked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/77313789849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/39425343372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/fetinapijuvoxawawiranoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/39193259099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=streamz+tv+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_off0000dabe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABE 17628 bytes
SHA-256: b4adc528ddc61d6dd08e39556f868f14517ae7a01ffd3fb1aabefd428120babe
font_01_sfnt_off00010845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10845 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001205c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1205C 10436 bytes
SHA-256: fd14dce54579d9ac925e3f311ec16754a7c724b1dfe26c50850462656ce649ac