Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d654d5a214ee17b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 21:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 30b65762746abad18ea92182155d2f74 SHA-1: 4ad42d8abac22d64151e1e4f717cc908bdba95c9 SHA-256: d654d5a214ee17b11125a6f10aff0936b40b07860348cc38fe16a2d282fa2671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/difuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/pidibogokikasozugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e58c283c217aeab590482ebf1c68e34/85212391332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/setulanugururus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/kineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46268402724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4f4ce749---menovigadojuvotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/wavutiwapesamosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1kr3ol7qb7pqpcbtsgd5l9lml/besizojitemefepeninafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetnl.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_0B2DB7266BB5B616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/49004106536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839f065f238---talit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/neloromopovari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqhd4k8mmn4somq220ujeeq1vd/85649400618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f87e9c7fe---92303193636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608994b36dc6c---wimugenebimumawulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/87924647688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/20488757114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/77741588603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/moroxuxaredamiduwagebono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9f8038f11---vojibube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=behaviourist+and+innateness+theory+of+language+acquisition+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_off0000e6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF0D 11380 bytes
SHA-256: c0e48905e10c2f4be985d50ed47ccfb5057d7de0c0883a560a920e58e08a90cf
font_02_sfnt_off0001195b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1195B 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 1b936dfbe3ba3203255435636d2cc8372b10e38638c96f05ab230b2157584e39