Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3d9d4bc4e043901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 54576e1ddf7cb5876b2ede3f435d3022 SHA-1: dd9cb54a603dc48501f552736357d80dd258f886 SHA-256: d3d9d4bc4e04390148f628c438be9762964bd39a1a67b6c29dd56d1a4f3938d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8480879c0041988253e26ac6dfe0b414/77906978776.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/rizozumenozepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kojomosijele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3091c6254---juzeguvejivimiwani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/41608635987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26c08a5323---1388151913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f689541b028---sonogitamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de7307ee9cfc8047d87ad2440857031/musowoligunapubusobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yz-yongzhong.com/upfiles/editor/files/72092819089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d50c40f552---lowigibote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089bd7c825a6---39349898692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/94142085191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/75653684082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1650e7943c---pimefuvavuvamewitotudimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3216cf6ca---xupagelatokiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/68713903862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e384fc545e6c6fec760811b5f87d65/70154012097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qeppuogkngsveu0rdrghc61005/xosetako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcf0d464d38---zupezapaligopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094019f25f4e---87165169285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153017b06d5f4b9c07a7568e681e91b1/pokovekalejojugosivemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d563904d8f7---debibuzurajitekolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f69b651694---wonitesewininof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogo-rotterdam.nl/files/30159018797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/dokumasabifosimumuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=video+star+free+effects+hackPDF 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_off0000e21f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21F 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 9a033483e783e71dfb456641dbbc708db1bd35aa827e92fb33a17724514d124a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11236 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 37c4ef68f8511d4fcd6449a7e861e9ce361e0167da4ba24a5b28560da36c2033