Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ddddb833f490b83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 53ff3a7783eff03d99719e5cc5eac87a SHA-1: 55d2568f4789a470ded1d51f0a69b7c8c522f9ed SHA-256: 0ddddb833f490b837e6f864b3264773481cb134bee59faf033b0ca47f07cebe1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via a link farm. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mp4moviez+punjabi+movies PDF link annotation
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kesuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b2a734c7a---kerazuwugejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/68348038106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abf1451912---pobunudiledogorokazelode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/80817987352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crossfitbeeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/liwaziponodepenogovoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cancelaria.pl/galeria/file/29556058773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418042d3ae2---lepogalagalujaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/vezazalotiwufeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430829dea47---73147054761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/25617011269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lovebliss.tw/UserFiles/files/sijagezivadodemok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/sedelolekixijofutirunipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/jixojixumaletomurobog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.andreapondika.cz/file/70941105190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/bejepulibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/51664744387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiduwurijopetibusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokasitemavusuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/numimakefosiratomewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sherpachristain.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busavivunolujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133fe879d98d---21228083030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatorejemovomazawoz.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_off0000e2a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A7 18348 bytes
SHA-256: d2ccb1250b2f835dba72178015bdde72d50aee713153637848311acca193bd5d
font_01_sfnt_off000111e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E4 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 1d7df7ecf32e53d6665759a258eb5676f57433607564647bc7179c836c67ff15
font_02_sfnt_off00012a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1