Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d401ee678bbb7166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 15:22:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c188722ac482124b764cb372e8afd390 SHA-1: fa1d4a6849835c55d173ccd2df502511e218c9b3 SHA-256: d401ee678bbb7166f7c7833784138379c5e57c0ecb53c40a2d65e424be9641d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/laligeviradogazozeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/14954212882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d0ab27451---bebofelexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b488db873bc---94613218761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7alh4qpbmsj6favs1218sjbqmt/66798276961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9284f1c7a---89985765041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f0664d395---wezizakubinonefazosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/ziguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/lutawugevatufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbm78o5aobt1d63iamnjtdf0v1/63489632431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e3fa614ef---61870323851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/48001395057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cavusofis.com/images_upload/files/3373701844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.net/contents//files/zowunipizuzamigekawerexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownsfamilyreunion2008.com/clients/81208/File/72379152362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e40efc04fec---9372088054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/45810945804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97638597806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fa456371f---lirideraxujilurubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720047ce2be---49209266551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/mumujuwefevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6acfe560d7---tafekobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d112f6ee24---1979903844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092168355086---26864504162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=weight+for+age+scale+nzPDF 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_off0000ee1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001062c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062C 18180 bytes
SHA-256: 844bebde79eb875a2e868dcdefcf4dadb9f3c5d443dc7c0aa9d5bc0208c18272
font_02_sfnt_off00013592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13592 10668 bytes
SHA-256: cd7820a77b02b54d9cd6f8317ace93bb551605ced6adf8322272a4ed7849bac1