Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4ff315fb128a986…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 330226375d355c50b7d64fef1251ad40 SHA-1: 87f94f66e679fe2b6e2c27726d9ae33d7246b855 SHA-256: d4ff315fb128a98663299ae696470e669d8cbf7a7410041d114ce20f29e6667b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or malware downloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dispersed+settlement+pattern+ap+human+geography PDF link annotation
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uin42hnlearkr35f6has4pikm8/10074960766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/e0f2d7ac2a3f38ce5ce076e5a84b7d50.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082380655a76---tefuzekiguzikuzosanajoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827ea5a8fb5f5b632871cfffb3a21314/90443826854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5ooruc4clqgj49udi0ngssdl5/taxisaziwakigukigejifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/63735989117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c3e6077990697e6a20e4e2278a13af/4788506518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1b04abf7b9c98087139f5c0262f6377/39423332593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a1f643d42---benoboxexororimibexawit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/82544138813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e372f969f86---7434347423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/gopujaguzavisefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/tojipexanitepugarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/lepituzomodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf8386210b---32063153379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemma.lucien-sv.info/uploads/files/612eef77ca335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/679dd9395a9370abffd5747be75b8b9b/27590767356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739e0cd92b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dde0d744bea2857911aa91e213c9d54/zomubulafuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/xuputokewedemadowowikesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/17136117998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607719fbcc3c4---33913007096.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_off0000c773.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC773 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 34063efef0ec56352b1760cddd7296a60a1f22fabb677aef131090d27cfc080c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C6 16460 bytes
SHA-256: b045d41d2e3c5fb99d508cfc8eb265903b9c93097790d4a911b45e6a20bbd492
font_02_sfnt_off00010b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1