Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd1245696faa15c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-24 04:10:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c636fa6428a3afebff2385157f506546 SHA-1: f6436fd0d4eddbdb46422e461a12d98acb957a91 SHA-256: dd1245696faa15c5bf20359972d2460feb580cd4b55ebb482d6c628917cc3154
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall pattern indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=circle+infographic+ppt PDF link annotation
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19399117308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/dulebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5eee9cc704---pekeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsm-trhs68.com/clients/8/81/818e764d3414495a915a5f66638dc9bf/File/danonatedoxobimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729ba6d6890---63200306950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/7900248343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123ba267532c---88364132204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/suzupogujewoluvexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcc801230d---fuxazaxerop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/laxekanogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c99fb343c8f433d673f3c80d6c8128e/tupotexipiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eirai.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54942891997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungam21.com/upfiles/file/1627588252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipajixunewogilulolular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/34452676310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jj46klapjaq500cg4ugb4ljmpk/32610038901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74234576674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/rujavunigimeriratamudad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be63a4f08d9---24811111132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6405278078---67975893071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/nedabulozorajidipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73875621815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18r9ig63rdbj1l4tv49kd3ce84/bomitodosodokaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtutrang.com/upload/files/22994887990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/40489172329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29592170249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezoruriro.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_off0000d7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC1 17224 bytes
SHA-256: f55eab1470355a80f4e0e3e0d719cca39c0bbc53d5dab76472425aa76c5e9b92
font_02_sfnt_off00011c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C44 10624 bytes
SHA-256: b61484734323ef4f88c8457e1cae29483de0162cdecd864053f7af167a7539e1