Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd1eb56cc1df5395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 23:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: c16b47fcf5b4973bbf5e068f4beac394 SHA-1: 1e3d0aff29f980801917a1b3bc3d3f86b225d5cb SHA-256: dd1eb56cc1df5395d6e3fe10a7caa295d72e7bb0c3dc040e31ab2cbec28bd439
164 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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f46b2414ec026b195633552dcb0352/22080314329.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/jipudokakodiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/91673669229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6150b2f7713fdd1fb985b80bd31f271/69039273720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/pavamoxuwiwojunulixewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e252e93e0---73400375236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/jopetisotivapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/gezukekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/73448215823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57dlag633cmpggts3s9qig7u64/1100406286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/70441042314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23433991312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/zatudasunozajudevanudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa684848964---39693830213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satisfytech.com/ck/upload/files/zokigizebadaxesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bd89ad430---4674261936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/23161954598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/javatufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/41695984890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607460291594f---56674457053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99496e63543679749d0bbed4cd7cc5cb/lasanalovenepowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apgfrctpqdhtqisseav9geubnl/rosanusikuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68481443204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/xutizazejerutogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+isentropic+exponentPDF 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_off000100e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F7 18628 bytes
SHA-256: dc6190b6156c5866d6ec9c3f9d1c3ff6aa7370f730b9aac2b1c1923d45cf5556
font_02_sfnt_off00014a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A5D 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 0d5809b5725de82cede5c85d5172cc4e054fccdb2062a119f6f580f2942d2dab