Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dd88fd547b79d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 78a50a2993bf72f8dbe366915e429e8b SHA-1: 3117bddc7bd66be23fcd14c9a5b0f026a0e83ccd SHA-256: 9dd88fd547b79d19c06a61a1b7a65cc36a40c2263a880dd1f0f46836e309dd6c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/xavameni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52b9ebacac---vidotabaxubudixeraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/98469492535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/47058003283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6923ea4e2---29617475583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a410bda8caee6912fc2cce8c5d84387/37094696493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/78665393109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607382a89bca1---99987702970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbmint.com/userfiles/file/57589883849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7ag2ntj01uu5omfba6ifi67fe/66599628146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watsonwilliamsreunion.com/clients/82103/File/zalujovafireture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21050550387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3efb912631---gavawapobebujufonurufemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/36200840506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lysgaards.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50716835392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kupureferelefulelalenufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/fobilaxivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28hcbp3n7c6m901tj0msjta2iq/29517998592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609894326e9b4---64090719070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/9699392502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/41155080267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cb4fd075e---wutubovitirutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/zenoluviwonamatibuvijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/welaxuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=parenting+assessments+in+care+proceedingsPDF 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_off0000e868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE868 17296 bytes
SHA-256: aa23fbf69dab844d860413a787ee1fd553d1bef3dfef8892c5f72b48324b6c81
font_01_sfnt_off00011549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11549 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D60 10812 bytes
SHA-256: f5f3838ed37abeb32fdf355c896989cc53b2f18b1c8b11a11d45fdfabb8c1665