Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da119681e1a11c9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-08-15 05:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9dce47f12a51e9f604499063f4978836 SHA-1: ad822551b21f06a16e0825d948e8a224fd135917 SHA-256: da119681e1a11c9e34f45e90c3f8e5af327bda726cd6d8de420853d10c47dd34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/lafarexilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5d4f3b18f---fofukoridesodapejonoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/35237739454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a5316d7d0---70445899708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fff72734b---42552312853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1fb79afb9---21581506470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/567fe34cedbc9e72ece5277d08cbe3c2/64140851119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/10739663993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/15804991407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/zariwaleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/jivanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/27291613453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/surarugumamavilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fe9331a72bd853c908f91ceec55fd0/95685967383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafordexstudents.com/clients/0/05/05b3dbe7dd9dc6f92b523d2b721f2ffd/File/nogopurawuboparej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05jjgep50qeucr737b7e9plfv1/62764218102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6300dadf---48058448566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/wudoditobupetetalufipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/buvofijudadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/nikusalelawawereraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65491924512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+free+vc+2k19+no+human+verificationPDF 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_off0000d8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8AC 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 5abc8dd24dff035a8a051f0c3306bcde438bf53c80896b49b8687826f3786bc0
font_01_sfnt_off00010676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10676 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8D 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 82e746d38dc9348e2f9565c5d85531be9eb5d509b8232a5ea5f45b477af9a0e3