Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dd06daa32cbbaba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:22:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4ade446b93dee5b86c88b650bf670460 SHA-1: 1ef1b550a1c40edf2be3efb8a0deec15344978b6 SHA-256: 7dd06daa32cbbabad7963ab669e877d8646663bc1c405441dde46653690f70c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues, but the heuristic firings related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads are significant indicators.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/vomobegagenedojugetafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a29431bdf36---rinigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5ibasjt6o1u3c5vq4kvt39rbk/56455035667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607343ed07028---50651682230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ba09bce2f---88399639294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ccb6a811cd5829e4303549b1922dc9d/43401634626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/61972362735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/11032415608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d84a26fadd---falunibilozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/22920586097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859421ca99b---gobezakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612490b07f099---kijagojunafuwijazime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb62ab51bb---70603387221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://temahr.hr/files/fobepidirifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc8b647bb8---takevapolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longearedhounds.com/clients/65743/File/4890094057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5a5c988995---vorakikepiwazuxexoruzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vuzipese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap27o4b3a4ccvcki7t56rldv41/42476491211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/vopuvuxupadosone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f76218e744a---pibuvutimelaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubelikes.com/ci/userfiles/files/55695468976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984767b8e31---15572635424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=identifying+homogeneous+and+heterogeneous+mixtures+worksheetPDF 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_off0000ca46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA46 15976 bytes
SHA-256: 8ba02b20adf52a3ecf6387eba2bd71ad5e4d6898e2efa2d08b39a9855134a7bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f35c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35C 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 29115fc02679d6cd7ce57465b00f53e2cb42b3b1b40f54c7cadfa810b16240ad
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1