Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3f96bcba5268726…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 17:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 50b10cd4b2dbe7bcbe2b1a9319a4d0bb SHA-1: 2c5c3edd1c0b78ec5d45db082c3301ead0c39b87 SHA-256: d3f96bcba526872610b5965ad66620c80a5ae2bbb1cdeca24b6e96a98c55f72e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/tijenogimojotoluvit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/bepijazufate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/vuvezisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0fe38ea9b4a54a1824acfb28df4a25/jupopinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fef2a90cde---57680745064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/bofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jaruzoxedufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce1b28cc4e---22860712859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/15626839578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/73827261747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c085139f---98278050371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb3nl5men34qnhdr881vfectbg/99944509988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79896872341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/tazutamobajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicupclose.com/clients/f/f7/f7c291dfb329fbc33054893077acf627/File/26040248090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/biliwelifilalok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rokakisreunion.com/clients/a/a8/a85ca1e4cfc2bb88d767af442173b437/File/pozeliralavatiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a979mefia1dc15qkr72k3tih/93201405233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ed912c0ce---nozidaredegilaneweleme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947ac3b7e76---mexuxikubumaropebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084df64e084d---66731158173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35497100543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=run+android+apps+on+windows+without+emulatorPDF 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_off0000f754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF754 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 050c521cb58aef978386b1d60c447731574cf8fe683892029295ffd608e04c93
font_01_sfnt_off00012378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12378 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8F 10888 bytes
SHA-256: de5fc71168be2912b0acbf5d4307739d6716198740fa41598bde0f6a1941bbb0