Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ddaeef7750af84b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c174c701cb3a24c02be8968bd3058176 SHA-1: 3c7245239a7bfc2adbec108cdf04d3ea6c48828c SHA-256: 7ddaeef7750af84b3ea3cb5955bd4efd329109eb509f7ad5b2f72aaa75562936
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the heuristic findings and embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a3077fe522b3409f01e6466dc34a72/83286048904.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thehouseconcert.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35417291032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/60775900167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ef09f39d9---jigalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a455bced5fe0415076663a51310632/26409545608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eee7bca438---5345638652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/71182217053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cee38d6ac2---36439589713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/77860790666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2afe3159dc---nejerotokeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051c7bcd44d3c03767e9ebf956d5fd6f/pabukezutodizuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e3458ec10---xiserizaxuneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/birozenuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/8667307862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/56251683471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/gakovujafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/90448243979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb0f53da1a4b40887afa1dc41b2f1459/34199709489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/gijagosamabutifixoruxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e12a0f76be658c5ef9b84a185c354ca3/36807631792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/lewiwaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/nedeguserosifabaropi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tratamiento+distemper+canino+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_off0000dc14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC14 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 0b560be529782ba8643c256bd143a74cbb321877b25c7ba4b6a3a399f68c451b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f49e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB0 18544 bytes
SHA-256: fa4371a9b5e39af0b29fa39ba72a332b43e6126d0206406be32024ef49f10bc1

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