Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ddebec1bc6617ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 053db2e4f1353699b1a5847cbe0647ec SHA-1: 6aa9bdde4599eee7a600aacf9afe4a02b370c78f SHA-256: 8ddebec1bc6617eacdbd50bbc14444c704bb81ee4aad54ef6d32133e865e4b1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous unknown URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/98474672864.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/vuzisemenowidelupibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/62807019324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/70661353239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5917047171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/vupoval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/13116017549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324825d3f6b---48766581367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saint-party.com/media/file/jopoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25619691036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karjerastests.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8237035872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inarsindbari.org/uploads/rotulaputupatixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/15683629360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japhina.com/upload/file/jokobilamiwisidiwuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74755102380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usa-ex.com/images/blog/file/68108655759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapuridiocese.com/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/19952881674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/79416402352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/11727915257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/xodufaxukefuwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/mekuwijonumasuwuwiwuwakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bee987614f---73121835871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4748d591e78c1694efc785aa1dc014c2/kebofanutosudekabuforek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/naxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=icloud+bypass+tool+mac+downloadPDF 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_off0000e273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE273 17944 bytes
SHA-256: eaa9de9ca0edd15412bb13e09a070714a7b5a2a093f660c0667068b09156c431
font_01_sfnt_off0001106c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12883 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 9f338093572c77d8cba6c114036707dabdb37f74c71e9b1106ab9fd703cfa091