Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d960e3e8460481ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-08-23 14:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e524341f4819e848321a8fa842b78106 SHA-1: 20450953e8c661db303983c42e565822b79ed46f SHA-256: d960e3e8460481ac556e5392a7ec878dfaeb05f401bf2d3c59ed962bb89af231
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further payloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/konaniradikemimuvadowaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib19d3vusfutuh1qudgu1ih79u/52357583888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/jekukovonuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xawakikudokasofolosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/89289879980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5038e86c663c0d31b64fdc59f6af0c56/batutiniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b23d36be9b---gipivijilamabiwukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biodent.ro/m4fm_files/m4news/ck-uploads-files/lebabibuzuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/powopazuxovinodexobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92838166823bd16b954c4c053adb0a37/66977747674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v3v7rlskkn18820l81b7fqjf6/13078043142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jupumujiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f09eed4a640---lasixemorujawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e807939bfd---xivifulagoxoboxavutokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/jeronapinajewopuwuxiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/tezuzejovikibabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70601340937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43f1137222---turolizibubevovenixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selidbe-beograd.info//files/rufolowowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/35879131745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4679f03575---dotelibodawelirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8db9a9fce5---46051525334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/84236890967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0135be1aa---zaxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105eff2a5508---80296023550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+reactivity+of+alkanesPDF 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_off0001265f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013e71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E71 18132 bytes
SHA-256: b88d229951c682b8005ea413efa60354db97d9169d80e7e9dd18a2bb1377e910
font_02_sfnt_off00016e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E1F 10904 bytes
SHA-256: dc4ea563ca6517fb6966f6c628d750e4c6f32d423063ede56b3f4605caf7e39b