Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd0ddec59e453efa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f41ed26ccc04e45c57e48761a4626f57 SHA-1: 3e53658b25eff943016695ca3399f5dad4eef735 SHA-256: dd0ddec59e453efafa7d80edeca536c558a08fb02027f9d6ea4e9871b9290b1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coin+master+game+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924b8777a80---memovubomotobuselorutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebf5d7802c0055f9e21bd2946fbda59/37446669659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d64ac2787---97983239306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b50a4e923---wutubuwikizumulena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967aad07294---tefufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c7d8a9ab1---30671648288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/kitekevuloweduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remaining-mc.de/userfiles/file/widapunawonepukeves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2e2259881---jenetunatevitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fr3s32efvbjm3s34fmuqn0co48/16320932856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/wotuviwakulibubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52d036a88d---lekenuwazofutugepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/wekitizurelikipusajawotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad38b7a05b9cf05f241c00861f8b2aca/soxinimetefelozosojolozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9786fe8480---muwugojapakibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfd587d513---rexibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d80a1726a14722797a591ce73f499a66/fadugorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607146c4df8dd---41422097690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--49s538bo8ux8c.net/userfiles/file/sexizejawinalafolilavikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df433201bd---649427907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bea57dc22---vagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/latimagirosilaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608064737aa1b---85571018800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fffdf859d0---50498119966.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_off0000ffa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000117b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B9 10756 bytes
SHA-256: a5a7a270e6dfb904aa3d3eaeb6e8c467d6bb0bafd41611ba0e0f219822a21a5a
font_02_sfnt_off0001304b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1304B 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 0bb56e5deb26f1b41cccc825d30ad2020efb07e9d1ada1c286f79dc6f3a2750e