Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da1f6834c0309fca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 04:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 90ceaec252a2be61204ae7c0a3852040 SHA-1: 60309c0e4765ae08dd68da83e58a6eadbfe5c057 SHA-256: da1f6834c0309fca6842d57706737fd2bcab66d5d864d65d681b0ae67d24a87e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a lure to download potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+apk+download+original PDF link annotation
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c2c72da6d---20579898473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/tepilexuxowoxapatav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailpark.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/94145396135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613031d1775e2---fojavibojadajufatotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/82625824266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imoroz.by/upload/file/xulutex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/nazufojuwufikadatebofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ef49c1f01f5b8ae25fb636118eff1ec/naradiwinedope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/62144727059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/penesejigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/55629126772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/tevamorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/lomebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b41136dd0b---70919253901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/lajirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/977804715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busto-wl.gattinonimondodivacanze.it/themes/userfiles/files/bodalobazela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/33573685763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/33329306812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wojczak.pl/userfiles/file/74185524928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agros.net/uploads/file/3691273909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/79667972724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gkz-crimea.ru/userfiles/file/64517260684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/50112803143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b3e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF2 17716 bytes
SHA-256: c7f21ed63b22c0cc78305fc979999d8a6c5a3bb412a0a1e7369fa632684f9f35
font_02_sfnt_off0000f989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF989 10784 bytes
SHA-256: b9a6e635325ac0e2bca832e58f200c367bb2fb9f89e3bfb908986c4a2bbbea3e