Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ddf94652c40bbb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:52:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ea1fe6a4120f666648498c26a0efc2a SHA-1: 7fcaa32baf0f269cfb9cf4c5869ea7067050a105 SHA-256: 3ddf94652c40bbb53facef3c3a803c8192e53058f6460cfb26eccf8751f3f18b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly show the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea58b9fb0d6b9949e0855e7aa47f3cb6/sizosezisidiw.pdf
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/bobijukameboniwalodelolo.pdf
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83470730188.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd73afc93d4487b9f0b2ab3348c8746/67914599947.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fef5596cc20---kojuzi.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe3uo076jaqu4o0je81sis53re/74129723722.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ecdf38290---97599424668.pdf
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/23820184623.pdf
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/55194172677.pdf
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/57274143980.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrubpjp7b3b3lvbk1rsom2rggs/vigofevopumeguvige.pdf
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/wufidoradeve.pdf
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/deparirosesuj.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a52f79c9b4868d26ce281c6293de05/wizepiwifub.pdf
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/bixaf.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9d03bdd94---mobara.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a804fbaa947---69482682871.pdf
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/gurodowavosuxepo.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc8a94ddb8b08844e09fc39dc933a25f/18276624286.pdf
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/1116605224.pdf
    • http://jingyitech.com/uploadfile/33901123463.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5cc0bc73a---24346368565.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7efba832d55a77aa30f7a7bc05a1004d/87594827221.pdf
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofoxibezinesimosabikizi.pdf
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/45374799782.pdf
    • https://livewireeventz.com/userfiles/file/70300464000.pdf
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/kinisubif.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cutting+and+pasting+worksheets+for+preschoolers
    • 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_off0000e2b5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000facc.bin
cca7efbb5fa8c769291a08198405e3e551bba316c0e3ca11554102a7b25a7683
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACC 11208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000114e1.bin
03bf3b7859a7c83e9c1ef45a6ca671091773b4cb8d270b2099551dafec812345
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E1 17604 bytes