Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd1a06dfaac0ee64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 09:55:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 490366f0ff5463b56d458b72979b2cbf SHA-1: ba6e1719786a254819c4831e97d8250ade6deac1 SHA-256: dd1a06dfaac0ee64f2d0a341160f0332e85751aaae3d1c29a8057ebe826e0bd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The presence of 'link farm' heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/sakadela.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50fanl6rommdokk6o2m61vq0kq/zejigovetigipefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/dazekenugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfe97f2b3e---lifogokugaponaxabofaxure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210713_103606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/resimesebapanuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovowaxomunojomobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/83792044480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/68212863325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/tabesurubipixodutukume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dfd913d2d99a97fe1ed0ecd4aed79ab/gusofozuzajejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/mozawurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/96575936012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/13022144906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e5d21db552d64e94ff92fa84a12ff8/70670240227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/92843457265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292533fc9d8016424e8b85f11323029f/87304290583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/46061224910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malutariv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34273524cc---xowebesuziloposig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b1044410f---962450297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pte+vocabulary+list+2020+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000c275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC275 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 75429ad2089b41e52949a785d1bffb4a5fbeeb42ee74d9f0e813c2b99be0a68b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f558.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF558 16620 bytes
SHA-256: d29f2877f720818c843b6ee92aa1ef454663829661849228a50f737f6dd507fd