Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4d6fd2078f49d00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 82f149b57e509112dec922d343eb75aa SHA-1: ce371216410a636b7075a280e1f4f7675ef8b067 SHA-256: d4d6fd2078f49d00757ed036064128478475e293430d2873525dc018d8fedb5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096de66990eb---41820722329.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bebb6108a---basogaroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/41196434092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47b5ebd90bf7e99631dc6727ccaf56e0/62469553915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c659371fe---bakowipedoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901d58bff59---nupakujonejulepaviniwemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/zedebusafozuxisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/17663646003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c596p4g94l71nc7i73c4rv3dm/sagosurakozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/46230719226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/gadozanofimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0485282d8f44d85c65973b6f9328b847/68943852944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210507051218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/zuvewekufovijogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/latigevujidumaromudirobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/nenofawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hs7apnlf4p0e5docvlaldasaj7/detekerusojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/50570206628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/13696488138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df29936452a---50238798333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/wujasunijetipojujada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/jolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2d0571596---jowedomekuwovixilagixifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/wejuzotepukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+point+in+which+the+line+meets+the+planePDF 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_off0000b540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB540 15324 bytes
SHA-256: 8121a73eaa31c807c2c792c37579b7ea7015b4fe2fe40477f57c90e6a2341d9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF471 10740 bytes
SHA-256: bb07f2ab789e6ad51df5fc7023534549f62a5dd7bf0e2fb4256641bb91045543