Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd13c2355295edce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: b90d23f2542fccfd10b0a91e26a81b6b SHA-1: 43cce2d7e07c51589f8e98119aa40a7766c08aad SHA-256: dd13c2355295edce3b075d00cfffbfc276d5f829a06dfa83b732043bd7e630c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unturned+military+helicopter+id PDF link annotation
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/73424031693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52168044546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b215659a404596fde6982b36869656/19166357873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/70422815070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f10bd35d2f---25249023460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6875b0325dd4ba6148f41da7f0d62fb/28871627956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/41412223780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070faab87799---jilasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/mivuzajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/demakat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d15d414658e610ce541029aef7f83ef/99604648602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/xopoxotimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l28iof0cn3q6nauqbdhm43vikj/71575611478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a885a415668198e4cc105ff2a962c82d/siwevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34a0eb22f923b305aecddeba883702c/xogukisaxufajulerokune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fb8e7dea8---rimivewaxenirowalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/risov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e471ec3b75---89367321972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/44865420235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e1d8d119f---41891659706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4535653e2---29889647336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dc684a918890492d46adc9923196a55/83356500671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7efbb7d909b9b67c8d04e99e3fd81941/liribuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa605ce446---25717861798.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_off0000f402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF402 20772 bytes
SHA-256: b2e7e27f39e40320cb7c3459c660398a41022f8d6a2157196e2e9908c6efd7ca
font_01_sfnt_off00012915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12915 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001412c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1412C 10832 bytes
SHA-256: f65b0fccf838e767c759bd427311278876d79cf52bca64b7b27948abd22db812