Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dd2cabae13fb322…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:36:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 04f21fcfcc8984d6036d34c206fd4916 SHA-1: 1b6e71613db8376e610b3dcc76838bea34962f14 SHA-256: 0dd2cabae13fb322e751f787bca355762f863dfa14c9621ed235f355260ab5ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve a secondary payload. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage trusted domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/70867869015.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/witigixolagijuroranekora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srsheicha.com/uploadfile/file/75398879547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-ball.net/files/file/somixagegomudagodonewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/zepumajukixorupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/duronatipizojobiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702a3b825bb---76439181964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/33518006086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836e81b2f01---54227129370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandalaya.in/resources/file/nosala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/98006955475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/gozagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b66784f370bf354261c7fa3a66fb591/17061291516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210716154253605974k7f5m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/56057411969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/negepixamibureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3226fbef7d59ee6b30fb8cef914eae88/fagifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5dee0d400---63959359515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4fdda0507---40861262969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/11733340888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-22/20210622152709674353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/bejonipojakoram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6fb7952191---sisegenifenidolazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/sedurarotebukiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hogwarts+letter+pdfPDF 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_off0000e47d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC94 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 3de1de31d45ab0acfe7f94828c82a2b3b70f6eafdddc5edd5377a9ce36b56081
font_02_sfnt_off0001149d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1149D 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 54f1bc654f00a9460523f7ca5ffbdf76031455f77baea5bf7540b694c3b60797