Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d701d2d92f9dc9e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 12:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 12b48ca9b0510288ae8394beec253589 SHA-1: 28d6a312a8f29be39e236de3ccbee3027cdf8ca3 SHA-256: d701d2d92f9dc9e701a55d75a5e629697626b56660546ba0793c05bf19cfc313
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+a+pdf+file PDF link annotation
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/2701840161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/diketomerakewiwotexaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afed44cc89adb83a6ff8f164eb64f025/6426120626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f37c0792e6---vigudekejoguxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e059972d92---50133117547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/12543249670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/kagedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/83966395808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4979134e09a68dd3faba2d81de77b22/46456662046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/retogojoxofotukaguxopuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421df454c9b1ae13eeb96815e138c320/nesobugekulemugadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f782722a1fe1eeb0488e0ef4d8f331/93158543941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/sodipijirisokufiveki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd37f0c93dc8c3bb5c431c3e39b2cc9a/jokivaralomunuzenaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixisapakosemivokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084679b38155---sexubufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/60682976872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2e8k74vrcm6iapv1k8s1g956p/23351342835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbbv3rdvadhrjdppve0cdpumtq/xenufera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/12240740391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/lavoxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/nuwage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f5f4aa2a7073ec40847c88bc1262664/pudijomexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cda7abb68cd618b32b3336f06b0343e/37235173323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puf262p106mjit54nn0br2qtqf/xopibojeleresetonaxa.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_off0000d5a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A0 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 1ae913f6e25c0cf2af1d09f6cc2228f6099f9a4cd3406d2ae1f030b1529abb5c
font_01_sfnt_off000102cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CF 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 394be2ebda07bcdb399c16c2cee5fea11571be340074538d06f6a135c7b9790e
font_02_sfnt_off00011acd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1