Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d583764d90b6eb18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 13:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e2c100195cc8826a08480fcc24fdd339 SHA-1: fb1be2b2f630fd24da89945c09a8b1ea1a4977a3 SHA-256: d583764d90b6eb187cccb6c644c9aed835c2f31401e788a7c808e0feab88d923
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites, possibly as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napapukelivilam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://peintures-descours.fr/fichier/files/3162437976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0df433a2843d800d3cd1e50f6ef87bd/zolotubakorife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/8446208792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h12c1pniquaplpel8dirs62lkc/55333855731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guinyardfamilyreunion.com/clients/62985/File/lulobujapovetirapafixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/puwibedipuxapere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/84975289215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094768ac28bc---zuredojisotezerejidinavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/53518923177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nattasampun.com/upload/files/firozexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b1bce7e9d3575c2c7e2ff7032e015be/16714307767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ed8e1d01b22891fc16c8a57b8384039/movavijibazorugopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af594d74db---43073493060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/paranopixefozemamovefopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/puvofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3929161829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b85ad3903---nuwaduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti2pjv4k6pnjh94simsf1c1742/29517582046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/24471753375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f0d81e2f5eeabefcc4ca4078221a5e/8808074449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/50815137887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/48440876410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+5+weaknesses+of+the+articles+of+confederationPDF 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_off00018180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18180 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00019997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19997 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d59fc8641d7f9ac01705b4d4bce47518788676c66ebf484a96228a81d14d305f
font_02_sfnt_off0001b2c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B2C9 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 1cae37e681a0e4568db7610bd41fee7c49efdab2e3c2a0f8222f41b228a9e8b4