Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd0b75fe81b6e589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 14:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8f4982d6e94465d4c7ed5be4ea2ab8d8 SHA-1: 3d38b70377b13a6f1e712ad3f54a261db86074d3 SHA-256: dd0b75fe81b6e5897b0958d864c7238f96b6f516572a5acd805988e4b25fc5e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to 'irregular nouns and their plural form'. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of external links and the nature of the detection point towards an attempt to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+irregular+nouns+and+their+plural+form
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c6542c6ec---34265445507.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e22137501---11926261086.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7875514f2c96399e434a145b360420c/41137938472.pdf
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/jezusataluxexedadu.pdf
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/pogolajisuxapemefokonab.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607313db0cdcc---somajerixetidumag.pdf
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caa6003d6c---32713684141.pdf
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6c68f2b5b---20783542526.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcd7354656---didawi.pdf
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4e151d44e6b9355188aa6ddc2e633e/takudinone.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ff2d0da8a---32201867628.pdf
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/94921189887.pdf
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/tovizomiforabe.pdf
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dd4fbad84---3391158654.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010cc6.bin
301e1c965b874e775c7eab4247690066451a20651e72a75f8328855637cfaa55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC6 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e82.bin
ffc6cd904ca928c6d90fded3450b3b15649dc02999b51d572e79bb694d410a0c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E82 11188 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014494.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14494 4324 bytes