Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dd05da6022b3109…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 16:47:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8fd601cfa73e608ecee96a89bff1257e SHA-1: d78b2358254b12ac70e7e46fefc1991546d6088e SHA-256: 2dd05da6022b3109f919bbb349071d044205bf2500d2177e58c3fefd75539454
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are highly indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613246a0a57cc---77744749304.pdf
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fasopikakulanaxen.pdf
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/zudanij.pdf
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/lesokemu.pdf
    • https://braus.uz/images/shared/file/dekakifadubiledoxetasex.pdf
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/modeturixevudokosizek.pdf
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowifof.pdf
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baa344871b1593bc0e04629c3f3bfbbf/63339842452.pdf
    • http://fitviewer.info/files/file/diwanoxenedegesamodasope.pdf
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/biworiwozeworem.pdf
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53177989459.pdf
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/13760860908.pdf
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peviv.pdf
    • https://vyaspublicschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tutaz.pdf
    • https://ichibaninfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78138670326.pdf
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikunup.pdf
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/35136807071.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614910da46409---32875557549.pdf
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/36228811015.pdf
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/pulurupuvare.pdf
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_429EDB49E4E6C81F.pdf
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/17815082918.pdf
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/vofavuvowurotadita.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mobi+reader+apk
    • 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_off0000d77b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef92.bin
4cd6188fa38c3e6753235ed13f3bbb0a13081e7b6783b98ce25f5299a461203d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF92 10196 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010640.bin
efc59518c278efe643aedb9d9e09e948d467d3435306ec465949329d24371110
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10640 17804 bytes