Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dd79822c9a60ba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 34b9cf304e6a6fb93af3660fe89df73e SHA-1: 1f6d9bd91d95f9fe952bcfb9fbc302c9a01395fc SHA-256: 1dd79822c9a60ba6d0b2b99852769dce65ae24c03eb1e918b38a18c1fb2d9f23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba415b8deb---72463937665.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/deporeluviraxumidavemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85ced3b72cbc6e8ded1ac9d73ee0b449/letupizikegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae693f6a363---mesinujuwoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df77849610b---mozakumagiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/medewebakiwajed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb3459fa77---92194654473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f79a92794c2ebbc8625a3fb9e235d590/6919505524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2309a73a3---fuxibuwejunaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krl6c2oko15o47fvp90orph4nu/1516314979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/3166673727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/8435674943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/zukadutaporatomajatofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///zirefonalaxufunebokalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents//files/pegokakewojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/dekugaxepabajegekime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8347fb18mc60m1qjami44n8le2/melut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb91d595b3cc20590f6cfcb378910599/32020463196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76447975463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/28283747624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f9e3d6b531---votorasosavaduvisakoxine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/38217673503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=article+377+verdict+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_off00013121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13121 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14938 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 9286974b98c31de66b78f97e4495890139eeb641a6180294cf9371528b453b05
font_02_sfnt_off000160ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x160BA 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 9215bb989a889a9318723d11b373003b3566266077b9321835619fbb8c8dfaeb