Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6d87e9b80efb030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-08-11 16:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 418bc0b45b4083215b054234347561f7 SHA-1: b71e7984f58b7cc9d18283cb66180cf469866346 SHA-256: d6d87e9b80efb030599819e665cd959bc519775ce3a0d5a59a9f9da14a3531bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/17226978450.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852012ff3a241266161a865afa09c9a4/gemupubezubumabegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/ruxofosofusoxapaxiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/81087128106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/20988288656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/fomolobajuvemixozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/571be026732dc2867e38b32cb1c308d1/92022243719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/vituzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54n4h10mdb69i0nie94uhitv6u/75879005439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.com/clients/67403/File/sidowugipujanelubifeled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bdb329568---lefegogok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhs1962.com/clients/b/b9/b967f936f519796c2a696a6ed1da67f9/File/rubojivivelufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuvelazafifebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/besedevutekopitotisalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d338c90f1---mabutixexedolafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/4626964544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611189d6ea4a3---xexapovelexavizegujulijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/280aojf9jhmua7q8kv1pgrp8fl/28124894612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a149716527ff8a5a2981928ec9d3ee01/tamononezijoxana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/73634666278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+trumpet+notesPDF 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_off0001170a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170A 10612 bytes
SHA-256: c7c74d51481f251ea4365f49ef03aae3034379bad38e1d61119e049b8e1fe83a
font_01_sfnt_off00012f62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F62 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 91e91b18bdac3b6d03e7a4c95de23661c06c993dec41b1168d6a2854b0743227
font_02_sfnt_off00015bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1