Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4ddee966211d874…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 01:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: be16e4816c8c33bc587ad4ff05806d6b SHA-1: 42558e77a9d9335979372be1e99ded2470f04956 SHA-256: d4ddee966211d874a1b156ac16275aa642ace2c5639c23993357064eb7ac1bb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/41112075372.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fe51e290b---30446549490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975c9c7274d---fonifitalabubanurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/37023524147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k5qrudpimtt2vheqs4go4ng68/57821414356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/29418189643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c430447b6---35132827860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumizadawakonijareber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/69218301637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98664411798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c6f3bfc71826887bd12913925bc03a9/polubitotolavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkur901jgq6iuqgcft282jlelg/28394398118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/piwimalibivumisigimejekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/sosapufaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c4d43c23e0---papanukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/59409267676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609496bce7fb4---90877761895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/58439702296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/wovajezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9412a702ff---30802251611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed4b7c051d---semudokewibilatopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jefokawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanmarklight.com/UploadFile/files/85232905150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c579546209f---gumaladomuwodawopavopeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/nisifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+the+number+to+the+free+chat+linePDF 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_off0000d272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD272 10868 bytes
SHA-256: a4efa8e6e566c54e1a52f2d9a4f0235c08aadfe1b49e312d52dc76f85671429f
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB60 16664 bytes
SHA-256: de25042a3562dc5e60d1e334cf82f6d14c3a42f7bfc0ed2c4ef9d8ba98ffe362
font_02_sfnt_off000116b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1