Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd1912ba3ff61e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3ed68605d0b7d5e9f6c2779dc385b403 SHA-1: bb7a4403d58da1e8e0053d0b43cc492873dff3c5 SHA-256: dd1912ba3ff61e525d18b97c9c4eb3c22547c1a1994d92931694ded655126d4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external URIs and link farms, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/35464655132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30fe288cc3---furalepamofifepofawavigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/segakiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7a0909aba---15484994458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibvh51ku3eer1sve8l3p4ccsc0/kepalegekarotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/68738107290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607145a6e9d0f---zedokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34cdb43084d1e68dc4293493021d97b0/rarokabikakadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19219e25efe8557e09ca314b897d7c5/2613173759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/per5soidr3jmdbg2nqdc8c79la/pitadabos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/78066103762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac89e2660b5---99651451704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/19811745204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/12238490569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f392aa556b---10432583476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/guwekawerat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6490aad445465d4b0beb1052486fc5bb/96469558361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210706185935618547nt9nch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210603190206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/dafudugulidusexamarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/67959400005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608322484fa7d---85767572668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=s+chand+class+9+physics+chapter+3+solutionPDF 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_off0000ef31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF31 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 19be5d27c5efce132b1ad96c321ec6a1230c3d9670e52735485381dc4f42b699
font_01_sfnt_off00010981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10981 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 7b68644f17ca166a03033159e13f3a171fddec430af026a7603d3d3c7c2d72c9
font_02_sfnt_off00013817.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13817 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1