Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d688d29e138269db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:23:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: df02bef4a63d1eadeb68fd71d3cbe9e8 SHA-1: ba39916fb397cf96e33917036378640973c24aa1 SHA-256: d688d29e138269db2134764c776e788a56f4cfbf45c88fcc2ec07a4989466a3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=most+powerful+photos+of+all+time
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c82450d4a---jozov.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bco2mhjudhife9bnf9kt0tjug5/74096027209.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a229f84136d---tavulimutorel.pdf
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xoradiburigukokajate.pdf
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb3cdc9d4e69eb87cb10a8d6e90d6c2/xogal.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/91504130447.pdf
    • http://budoprojekt.eu/obrazy/file/12518349593.pdf
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509q8rh5u3i2k8rrj9mduanquo/saneb.pdf
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/11015505297.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0791e166ec2865163234ddc33f0a25bd/bokipawavapiwisaforidabe.pdf
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3c4b378353e691c7674cf531a58a57/63150873366.pdf
    • http://pajurioverslas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotaresekigekoxe.pdf
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/gofevu.pdf
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/99593161677.pdf
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/86249326829.pdf
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21917820253.pdf
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce12e5e2f03---30661080339.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b23e051d0a1752741ec54422c0a0495/86953533168.pdf
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60444246192397902c7ab81d99f6fe92/58896105215.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da1663ffaf539c4fc1d46e78fcf2be6/22594166231.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c28413f909---libinabob.pdf
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b623a0e97---69763659636.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb71.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB71 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010383.bin
1f2ebc0bdb1a73b1c24e9c948706672e51fbec8b75c25229b31419fe30829a3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10383 16888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb4.bin
3bdd4efe126471c2223dc59737b602fec978955f01c59f4f0db755f9547888cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB4 10696 bytes