Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5d3abfe0e822fa8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:08:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 70807b5820bdcd1bafee1b455969a190 SHA-1: ea96d0c3d137e19b3cc96437cce40d21ec08b5ab SHA-256: d5d3abfe0e822fa87893ee7b304068029c3bc159cf3f9f92fad0bb530669ad63
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/35973430392.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/92911231353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exoticland.bg/upload/files/files/bepujuzidesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58aa1b763868e2c1f35ee1eacef6241c/tarobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/16707100788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/nesobanegel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077befac5e48---57754454609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fca60746ad3---51463065892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0otmt7lo8plj6rbs1oelt7tlf/54027067484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fa357f588---36136370137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/vapibamefidigamijoluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbb6ahq3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8288430276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfgnelc9c838d5vk8jb9alvju1/39057223351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dec9fdef236---26361115904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/xazefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///59315183016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/zolasukusiladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111f65d06f2f---petezoxajiwujabilarazuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efa3d0b2e09060703dac26c4637a8588/54147952767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/90791940553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59ccea178cab33b92752d9734400ba81/minurikewigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/baveluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwolobatifovalexowaliroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=code+des+douanes+du+s%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5051cdafedc22b2a66dc587fe265da6/nuwejozabadububeri.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_off0000d4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C3 19792 bytes
SHA-256: 38156b79aa900721ff1f8513ce6bb4aebd60c209de0625ee7b0f787bf4fa7d67
font_01_sfnt_off00010618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10618 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2F 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 19f08ea5f092b696907b1ba17732cb7181b0bde76b052b142e8085ddfd529bfc