Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d566c3e738e24e1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 22:54:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 573467ffa56e693d3ae823e4ec79e136 SHA-1: e95a86610985b9ef401c2fe165a68a981c1c975e SHA-256: d566c3e738e24e1b0d560e5056c6d497202d209dd790f3055b6fd78081b67624
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and a high ML score. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/mebufapitorajene.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/70193798032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e3f7e3b29---79581723393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jevozerozipepupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fb6f7d39a857aedb1cf1f44292cf538/22151503121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d1a6d65d7---vagematoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c525fd8ef73---68718654615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/tuwarine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e13bba426---22036448407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://williamshudson.org/clients/3/35/35bf74ce48b5c120232fd40fb4fe3e45/File/tijukake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a737e1e133---99974870312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greffedecheveux.center/upload/ckfinder/files/22550190229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55606933471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7370e08e66a30875e83cb9d6918e4e/gidiparebazibujafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815e6a911a4---zuzalamemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/48966682113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a6a1d6b26---19185385883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/vilapiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b77868e8d1---jasapatudunufubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v101smp0lg6nbshs01q6f1c2b2/ralib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=order+of+operations+worksheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000d793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD793 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAA 10868 bytes
SHA-256: c1975d3b556fe42ff9cee3008ed197cfdf808ff3d15f036c524b5f580897fb77
font_02_sfnt_off000108cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108CC 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 415fa4763af795a1c06b41e3e93af0e96404f83cd58b62ec3d70d656f277e9b5