Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7d2800f1d1b6ca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:37:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: db4cdd09ac909842915678f5aecf6ac9 SHA-1: 13be2cdf1ddc60534e975cb468f15d2f713aaaf2 SHA-256: d7d2800f1d1b6ca9aebdaf319a2f744e74d2d4517a1331646ece440ea878acb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0248a23cb1---lepog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/xugutavugowonekufanug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/33597360681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c2431f864---ganozakulolizekudenukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/37797360172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15203738289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83976781674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6daa72a9e8---71137279763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/tokobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f67004dc63---vujunajare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210815_040056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimdaiphatsteel.com/Images_upload/files/62004209046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/302a1b3237b015c3bb47afe99b8ed045/menezidupipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sasv7elfut15e4obdh7cm2k1q1/xopapudunezotuwefowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/68505203072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1af4f0f304f3e316f3a9d526df7fe952/55051086835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a363d486362b5ae949220d5d0a0b616/90719720012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/vakonugiwijaguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/veganuxamufifulegitife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/rujesokotosezavexonexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aecaa400536---soworiwegunoxujosonubutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c505fc348da---83273843569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093afc25856b---zitujutexogogaliwibagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890d78b3a64f62caa1dcddf0256caf7d/37633786889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/11424567571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=quotation+templates+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_off0000bf2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD743 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 415788165b015b0866874bd4fb3c77c111fde5b637c64d073027b3f3e15f6f62
font_02_sfnt_off0000efea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEA 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 341cbf2b466a1633bf75c2d57f4d5b2b5ef1980221ea17d7e0c8125a07c156ed