Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9d3be2510168d24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 03b8dddaa1406139690fc868241cffcb SHA-1: 4070bb210c487d4131c7c60800933c3f9ee367d9 SHA-256: d9d3be2510168d24df67506304afb8fe75b68b69fb95759443172497a017e635
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this file as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple compromised host URLs indicates a tactic to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bde34297d6---50639681222.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc45a30dc40---fegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c115a2dbf---xilanazibirogizogifiwivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/24696709677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a04713f8f---63919595777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4d84ca7bb---328398956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/gekejoxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f38d622b42a708520095bfa006716a/98169908726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/94611363661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/wuveponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f92383303---63887610577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ce350b136---berukowabopupeguxukesomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2969a4b22---99809628659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/soxazufusaxunizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misspacificus.com/clients/873634/File/38618092033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5c8931ac8---24284051645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/65656893377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/manewuvotolasogewevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a16591a879029fc205a873652a8268d7/64097522125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bd571216b---83201227223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b091c18b535---93076823629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f086fd3f12---zuraluvikapelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ebd87fa06---97057739591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=words+that+end+with+wh+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000e869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE869 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001007b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007B 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 423b37c6087bcb41767bf136de0e88cb51eaa56e311cf41f3a4b5d25838cb013
font_02_sfnt_off00012d30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D30 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 5cc0430da2a79548a743ba60b440c24bdecf3923dde953565a665db63bfab2fc