Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3f4dd93090a151a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:30:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cae4b266fbc4f74019952c7b78159802 SHA-1: e7e6491f8f98a208fa3f774fd33ddc0968ebfad9 SHA-256: d3f4dd93090a151aa3e9c929d83d3a5810cfcc7128e71b7e3df95b02e610ef8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or use SEO manipulation tactics. The presence of external URI links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01jev8no5fpfciorhn5i6boui4/nezop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/553855170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc22c1e9d1---sisuxujavagiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/68718178064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydis.kr/userfiles/file/220232087499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b7e067bd031452e3d066619b0ec4dc/33151072484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/vasuwawijuxawamewogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38e888ddf8---zunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilbertthomasreunion.com/clients/5/5f/5f56fe696be94dde62972871c8a9bc28/File/sawerotititagofabagub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecedc63eae---zosuduwovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/783655201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/bamabexoxefudare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o9l8gdhabd0ibkvdl7q8abrq0/xisiluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b978e099f42---fesurogedawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaeb70699d0da18b9efde5f076ef5243/lusupofuzezoberafime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/22132234718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/fidasigimobifukizusole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/fizekatirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/52255284224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95887619767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d485e0e4e---sibiwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/movumozibivutoxawotezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/veag9o5bg1k3gukajb5h8koa41/3838505803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c424e13d5eeae1522b004300d6e27619/80095728613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ae504e433---58782358262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a616bd85d---tesobamemudinolisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79089fd18f2abd9403a6926ed4c6540f/74527505921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+day+after+tomorrow+full+movie+download+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000fc9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9D 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 042728905b7d13f717827393d3f81ffb4d33f955f88ff0c417ce742b6b5f1a04
font_01_sfnt_off0001154e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D60 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 17a212ddabd94a0f9aa94d77907cb3dd771cf0f5df56e6c563dadf17df243517