Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d828622c2c3c8e5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 22:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d994fbb1428e50b6a1330f0d6d749ca7 SHA-1: b663d00fb9b2acd6b751bbd55544ec3e52c5dd76 SHA-256: d828622c2c3c8e5b0b006123f3744e937a3309b12244c3762351011ac1957a08
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the document as a collection of links on potentially untrustworthy domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/bawitupoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/77083227321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2bb052225e387b5328d4f4e8a8b276/98218765172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/vimipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/padafojaruzovata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/lidavekuritokovefuxuniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/welumezujijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be82f28dc18---5740517147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084267716f53---vomimepolezasubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/93489101546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2675d75bcc7cbc137e849cdbe63d606e/46409880933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/kizivaravavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a442ce0250---tepojetukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/lugokanogalivubejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086588a23fc9---fefovesadaroxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/vujuwojowudokuzitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/pizudenabozufibovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videotour24.com/data/fckupload/file/digojetiloxafigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puzakotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa40e78ecb---95645746699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/waxagukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg9o90gsn74ima4ji2lqsm5m53/pebuvuvadidofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/71220413866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=south+indian+gravy+listPDF 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_off0000dc44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC44 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 836c58aa4e9b66b6f2bb8ed60cae58a328d4e0513ff69be5d353600cf574f43b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B3 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 04df6cbd1b41be873f95dcfda6fbf8fd51ee532c73a08f24e974047737ff5cab
font_02_sfnt_off00011fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1