Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd0c054af0ffef22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 16:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d6e469f92034d8e3dd415f33f368514a SHA-1: 125029adf8fdd58912fcf4c37aac4bd48b199cb6 SHA-256: dd0c054af0ffef22591296d2ce885294c806360d7643714afa4321cf5bfa1992
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of link farms on potentially compromised infrastructure is a clear indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1f733bc1f9---kuvakikiba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6172vs4q7p48k9rntf7t55p75/72735266440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auldskoolrocks.com/clients/878384/File/rewedakunabusimuxopazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/nixudoperibilovugodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/11342908645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/mabubepigabevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca6a34623aaf9016f2f5a5bbd9c86c1/70991896440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d19e8da97ee---73083871523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea3a4450c0---pekibukogatonamobedaligen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/40438875754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42a2b9fa81---10384007917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/37743587629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4d77267eee---sagunuwexibilobate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608037f7b1665---47945863597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjim6pea895hm35df1tchs7oir/jipadegesogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f90f732ed6f---92006989425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/vanedipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/vagajojezani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_EF0BC19D2A21A74A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/609179dcc89adcc2c828b87ace0f10bb/tapuwebapibogikifatopizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94gphtocbmtd9isq14ksh01vp/xokeselapimutojemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929749e9db9---samelidasopogubilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aadd79bd20f92a7f5ed8ccd5750b636/kamisidarekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/lajojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=bare+infinitive+verb+list+pdfPDF 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_off0001617e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1617E 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 5d3cc97fa04cd3cfeaa12e9902dc1a9a95821b374470aae8297783172f7bbf8d
font_01_sfnt_off000191b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x191B5 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 89bd7ab892d1697b4cb404dbaa7b8ee65fac73fa9fdc7b9fad703910b4fc7aea
font_02_sfnt_off0001a9f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A9F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1