Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0add331fb8bd6bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:06:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f20a47c3d3ee89a52d938f97a2e34c40 SHA-1: 59e9b6ba7493ae92ae4d7a518b8e5a1b7a8edbcb SHA-256: d0add331fb8bd6bcb6800b243144b107ccbdef6a104ef04de76a75e93dfb9766
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+eat+ice+cream+that+has+been+left+out PDF link annotation
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9fj4neogbf2e035t0e99snidc/jusudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/82722294483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daa707a25fd---rizetuzudebox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-pharma.net/data/files/82925366844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/repafiwotumage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a212f543b7e---sakefovurajobipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d84455d24b3---vufukesususiwako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kakopemitumobudabulawido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zijowanelixoranabepogined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69df287e0766a69aa6e98e51fd3a8627/nuzukanamexuxejego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/30048295575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/nenasanipesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00316b59e73b3e146fedbfdb59f18b9b/31229037628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97244391148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/wubolosiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/67126424287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089775ab4338---83120902061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cf11cbfed---82550871293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdd3c1261f7dfd8da4d1b33bdf9582a4/pefuwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3201fe25945d3976f0a00a84d33a7035/porisalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/polevatagoveregepurekibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c5c6730fa---tapurijewoxujutigev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dbc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC9 10984 bytes
SHA-256: cfb59bc5fddb64517bd8ad3df9380eb63e14e4d42e2222072d981671011cfc64
font_01_sfnt_off0000f52c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3E 16680 bytes
SHA-256: af67e782c5c659194b5191efe517f8a1f848a299c924ed6f44fa5c6f7879765f