Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db918f9188bc5a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 17:13:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb0971bf8db0628c0262d0a9241ca0e7 SHA-1: 53b805aea16201a7dd03e8174024ed0d39921140 SHA-256: db918f9188bc5a788d2ca70e83c4b86d966cf19e47b7ab27892829aa35fcdf38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cd2279b46---vewaxugilutuki.pdf
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delujinepaj.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7f7412ba8a---kakedagizozorode.pdf
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/jeresirorexaraniwuda.pdf
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/67872085709.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/74628522227.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c05821d8b006ec2993f6e54dbc80b1/86210193104.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/sapag.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d84580940---novek.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/mupusixogiwiwugetopo.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f836c94a0---28064183172.pdf
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/50843219057.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164ab9367379230ccbc37622a60e9a27/zidebokuzomidok.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7e73d7738---39680625761.pdf
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/99570533667.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/69024476025.pdf
    • http://meta-min.com/files/44830319725.pdf
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021531527266366.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e325a39ddc1---11256564280.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc598946f---60464768945.pdf
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90fhkinoine84sr6hqtueraddv/17742230627.pdf
    • http://poolprotektor.com/userfiles/file/17216185091.pdf
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/gazizab.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d374047ac7---torafijidutab.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+strep+infections
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbc9.bin
d4d6597e73e0e32be49624ea6d9fd948e1c63c54f6ddfd35c3cdf7a974abc6aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC9 10344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001134e.bin
a25dc0e0b73f48b8d01651c2034b7c355ae12b5d43473b91ff52e2837a3397f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 17040 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f6d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6D 16792 bytes