Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7c41743545c64bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-03 10:05:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 51cace6ae2dda57abbf28d408ca59101 SHA-1: cf9515b1a933e1431fae5f2f45da892d092cea07 SHA-256: d7c41743545c64bda987b1bbfa7e2aa877f310522c10560cf9ac595ab7169aa8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and link farm structure are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://lapiadinafelice.it/file/94320067428.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pngroup.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dcc1d9eab0dbce0b5c0955186e53fda/dagefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af87c758fad---nizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ce0c7d4fbda7b4256017beb0157326/64107708511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cddf79c32131b3672212b98d3e4591fe/vonujenole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/funid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/87443828726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spdur5i1ts3v72jvroogfe4897/nokimanugusexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160954a55c1eb5---durowenizarasiwavizasebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/46627494522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf65ad95940fb0d726beff27a51f501/21040931130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607677aed1ece---8899162831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3756348cc---vorelagovusugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/wixuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c855c68e0821a7a2ae13d63147d84a34/vupidup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba1e7c811f332a6bfbc9d64e81e593f/52385431997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cl2n9imeieb61v67e901qf08kp/rakoxugageva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads//files/202108021745363764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/67161017004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75a64ce8e6---mojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flour.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15556953819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106ebab7e8e9---60117392964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=half+and+quarter+circles+worksheets+grade+2PDF 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_off0000ed6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001057e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057E 16500 bytes
SHA-256: d28b0f30ec1fa7fd405e500e4dd74aa895c9680352676075c75cfd2074004223
font_02_sfnt_off0001302c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1302C 11292 bytes
SHA-256: db7e635fda7be194f633b2b24d833e2256ed3cbc03ccb6e270de385419342e80