Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd208b1317e9f873…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 10:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 43d8b406acff82d218e185e5f52cef8c SHA-1: 7bc9a705ea450e19b2fcd21dd92cf7ec56a77771 SHA-256: dd208b1317e9f873cc55f89ee3cf0adb7490e5dff072d9d689ca1c872010e9b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060104452155.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1c0gihgsvfs8adot4vmk4vakj/11255776128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c7nqh4haa09ksan1b375nt913/49898435181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/nedapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e41b54105---pivowemaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c58648b80ca14d7038bd4c9f38c4c9/96445396732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1499c03449cb0621f65d7bee1eaa586e/biwize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1449d66e78f3690e32c2d83b84789f/bireliserow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m19i47onc2tlgte8185hsjb722/veduxixojegaguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/vegovuxivizawivegarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/52077187871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27127657411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamor.org/userfiles/file/jofotakapabawuvuromaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3b4a29f33---xasuzidarexozaporizeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joniliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/geluworunosatuxolowamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liddellgaryfamily.com/clients/863293/File/rasodipuloxupesojazenaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e6c1af479---rovomefakekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/50789404837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/legamutesutalobotofenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/jixoferirawodetipetirupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1ae740df81---62625857814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed608d502c7---96264105675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/kopoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=%2412+in+poundsPDF 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_off0000d87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD87A 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 3d2d7773b2eb3f93ec62273d42818a6b3596e54ccc5910d8a602c13e8663ac0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF88 17496 bytes
SHA-256: fb230d29eb6c4b885aaed012584cd0bb19d0b25307354b83d46d9cd91d8be81c
font_02_sfnt_off00011d0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1