Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d653b16b1f3b9ecf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-08-29 16:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e6bc81611e77cd1c5b9c9c5d84792494 SHA-1: fc466bedbe6eb2244d79e14b9c7092cde6fe4db2 SHA-256: d653b16b1f3b9ecf5d1a70827bd43204365b8dd349c97c63ac658040a2099dd6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces the phishing and redirection intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/vepedubavapijevipesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/73271698663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/35128230961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ev41rr8g85b9vkdq9mdv6ghk/bixufetomudunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/13205642311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608236455410e---49046395801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ffdcba75642f0e22d2d69c529f0e8e/77501325223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safiorida.nl/operatori/userfiles/file/433624190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a998bbb2c1d1cdcbccda4f7d27c9da5/pemijolanugufopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/26782017922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bc416bd6b---94555704489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakoxiwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klefmarken.se/upload/file/35327454692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/27255299786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/wuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/30599829202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgfdc88ocpvocfahobh0nd9260/mivibujerinotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210809124656_hpxvra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/zuduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb56f2bf22901fe47298aa1711fdf6d2/12431791715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d03ce6de9---54601979661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/5862833923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/27852746234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15b7443ce0---mibekanuwebiwokibufaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=a+photographic+atlas+for+the+biology+laboratory+6th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000c094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC094 15928 bytes
SHA-256: df266c1e723844b61aeab6937c27254e697c9428b43d59098eb396e28a896c91
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B9 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 315bdba2f2ed802b06f7f1981a4e7af0db1356c4e125cb8879a5f9b1f59f9901