Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dd3d0ff5004043c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 22:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3c1ea7d388390d310168d21c5887ecbe SHA-1: dc92dd99d3bad30671d3956cfa35a7a3cfd078a5 SHA-256: 9dd3d0ff5004043c1e8e47a65bd6cccb4b9845f553396b2a1e252607524a8329
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67036d3dbaf7422defb57019bc5ad1c/60044363429.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/70065510158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxurenoxamarunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reedxtrainternational.com/uploads/pages/file/99527893129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105290334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/lipanipoxulojiwurizexatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2a608526---nonisemoxigikejonixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c09e1efe287b730366dc120de7cc4f/80207682767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e42bt3l.net/upfile/files/84145001869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/gusaxiziza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/65845081026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://18554080.com/userfiles/file/43518186149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/jededixejijinalemupuzeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c8f255f50---42622945904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/sanarimosuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e16a46f63968de3c7262ef56863a263e/59899111190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imc4s5inbq7phiuqfrgrn52hnf/64924380838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e94a817975---60838554123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0c5696c8213fb2b9aada7874a5e5cb/virafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenkenmoshi.info/images/files/file/gerojiruja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdff83ee9e---lifokekaputelenajeligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jt8rjt83247etac5pbimfc4q6/62089814302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4dd980695a849314d09f7bde3ca191/jevefurizubupupegikipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/raposularewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+position+hand+on+pianoPDF 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_off0000ee6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6D 17096 bytes
SHA-256: d17bdf299bdffcf997ac6abc0930b56c3f5c33739b01c0b3be8ced8380c10d9b
font_01_sfnt_off00011ad7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD7 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed6e05bce0b8aea70203175a022d2f98b3f7ecbe5844bc8ea8723c6c24337bc
font_02_sfnt_off000131ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1