Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5dfab747417a781…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-08-04 20:29:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: fb3c01f937b17e76061f4c954d8b7ac1 SHA-1: 8ebe884d542929f956dcfb83e77ae1ac689dd867 SHA-256: d5dfab747417a78198c244231bf37beedc7c064d36f49d18d4770f18a19aaf24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=curso+basico+de+electricidad+domestica+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2d8768a88d---xufubovojuludebexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/21093067622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7715091288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojomelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/46343289120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/josovetuleledajonipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb3fc32052b---86012234964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/76826203044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962fb12f07e---44562522823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//fireribetizazurisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4031c66e0---fipemuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/novigomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/dukiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/287b7g27oc55uuqnqc9cup0pln/37474252695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f74bca0c5---rixutasesesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/96755298474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/kizaxufivuzizenikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/87933093468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/36774633650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fbc847925---vexisisetupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4db3b2933---gugoxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/24894611078.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_off00010eed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12704 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 671c9e9011d3d2d0f3668798973d005eef85e687dacc3b50e79d62390f67f05d
font_02_sfnt_off00014002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14002 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9ca527b6d9a651ed9e8fb66bf39acd46603a5f2cf2396b69a2fdb27874d08b