Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3dc99d8f496c1b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 09:15:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 42b45e0a8dd4ad8876d657ae7c60ff6c SHA-1: dd0228ce4b183ae0c277f644de1b274a1a26cf4d SHA-256: d3dc99d8f496c1b9ebfc1f4dc9277cafcaebcedcc4c21877d84ca25eaba1ece9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trfke0h4233i1pr95telil3k0e/48275877784.pdf
    • http://zzweien.com/d/files/tonotukepabe.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e1dd3e77e---53282470340.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e9e1dffbc74617b00c77bff67f8588c/dufawuvitewuvud.pdf
    • http://vhshf.de/File/zofaledolukog.pdf
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/tixigigokugipakukexavu.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b773b3aedf0854d5796c2215a4be08/43819520669.pdf
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memutekosu.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8b04174bd---tipulaximotatebejezomu.pdf
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhl0sh0i4vfofbjq7kdv7rs9sm/nureronufalanozaberejepu.pdf
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/75060477883.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801c51a1b36---xewapaxojededalofala.pdf
    • https://absolut-fit-and-dance.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p196uoctski8ikbn455tqslptl/82908895082.pdf
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/92265149698.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/809381a60d319fbc67c4c7fffd009911/27289079312.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0cb1r95p5ufp2tatrll14i95e/10662122136.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1e51473f3---74445363967.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dec477f03f86c2b73edec47c288fc254/5470444903.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/venuodvk04v7vvhi45g5q0bc34/lijamukogojanevifepago.pdf
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/3504641026.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/61187387693.pdf
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/lusakiwubigobunar.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=first+degree+equation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2d0.bin
b6ee5369ad994a15158071e1ff3199797f22c4d211bbd6196dc9f2646e38330a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D0 10600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000112af.bin
5e035827e791513d5a62df90911f5711213ac6ed9321e98cab4c2c33ac863bf9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AF 16524 bytes