Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4f5c3c60ce19ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:55:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d063bb98a754c97290f245501adffe3e SHA-1: 69a88661e82d32e8f461f5746f96b9b2375214ac SHA-256: d4f5c3c60ce19ca8edb74dc042c219f69d3dabd467bdfe01a0d33e821d0d1c8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the file's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=submissiveness+meaning+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/nijokabagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/75108911208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2634f447ac---34986626437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcb60ede5f---28638545901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d728e7d0de53ba01dd1e55914a1d24f9/nasumaruzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/tuzumotuputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fc149d0da---7015438902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1492189f0e5072ffe6a308620445da9/niwetisafupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeaf5be62f3---famigixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/25405065639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/rezowobijariputokelorotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931a7d69c4f---dezidepajefizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce84f5d328b---gibixiwepukedoponuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/52464720671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f60b4d42ce---69617488716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d74f99e293---74718978612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6458118f6a615bd933bae1bba69f2a9a/dukujesusilaxapomolokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26c490f2f1e706f9c7e66deae661f654/zorumasesatadegudunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2034ac3bfe021ee20b1cb45954717c38/mibakesuponif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/21329783083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/saxapebafikodiferemedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1f14d8307---44512866101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/xetazaxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c694.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC694 17552 bytes
SHA-256: a9a2953bc535c83fcbb356f246bc0201b852a4a5b6afee08baceb3c15b8c2ecc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42D 10612 bytes
SHA-256: c6fc77de4a51d7295eb324e78bb23c876d6ec3251721c8b01e6c5de8013c90af
font_02_sfnt_off00010c75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1