Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd21f62335dcc391…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:11:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cc7cffe074cd7357add18987311f9c92 SHA-1: ebb88e8c7b684632c3cc08175d9a6b2bd1cd3b88 SHA-256: dd21f62335dcc39116e8dee5526d4876502b2f70b2a063a912a8f6dfdf3ed78b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66933286307.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/pojevurakusukukiwatuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81019356624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/783681269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/31940181740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///34002499586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgal.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69563713929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-himki.ru/upload_picture/file/72599006910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bc9956374---dilazuvuvazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/fasufaxefebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/gafilulikifowuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yksskj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loruxula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uangraja.com/contents/files/96834524667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marupi.de/UserFiles/File/keteluxuwutinabisajesem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55580490025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109191226095919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/pobikixumenesidavasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c21c27176f---94219428684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gjbuyerbroker.com/userfiles/file/tuperisumifelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc87c69fe2---51661322432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/46102582986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yoimart.com/upload/file/20210918163824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.companyforte.com/imagenes/editor/file/21174387227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/86669521005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/segedoxomanosotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373e9d4e82a---33673121727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=files+pc+to+androidPDF 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_off0000d97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD97E 17236 bytes
SHA-256: 50d7b61df7a4cf8c0401dd09c4777b77d0d72204cbc8852b9adc3d2315ff64fc
font_01_sfnt_off000105ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BA 10484 bytes
SHA-256: c16d18cc4a53f00a48468fd403879b9bb5e03acb430d34c703c8fde90ed1e38e
font_02_sfnt_off00011da2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1