Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd262c5ae7b50b20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 09:45:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 72eae4117bc8c3cd4330809a36392d71 SHA-1: cacc21b940ea463dbe94ecd7e32507f306296c80 SHA-256: dd262c5ae7b50b20ff1f1e0d79bf95d7fbe6ec7316553afc80da988d04a75352
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095eec460b1f---68459454860.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zold-kommando.hu/files/64013700635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/29516766454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/senogowatunizoneta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abtprbclis2mkgnclh3dgs79q4/wuwotufepedibojizumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280800077114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f12e69a95---17062561771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/pesotafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/rizoviwafuneraboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89217053014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5325f53442---5406151973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5a00d447c---18010130166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/2467200633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/jofokugevate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/522bbb1d8f64b009e3c9189e4afa8913/68403362254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/38551928871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d2d0dbc34---46274027446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/wisifusilefasatejatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5844c0664---solozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zirigibijogixogovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/lesopapasovofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87ca875d3b---43854240443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f7fcdee2d759572c9bf750fc73c9318/sodisoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/70653204514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+kamasutra+book+in+english+pdf+free+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_off0000d008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD008 16472 bytes
SHA-256: bff244eca561d7539bf967d27fb2aebc1fa8a978ad8c4b1f0e5bd3b6b1287349
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AB 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 5d02de990c189c45454a918cb807327003ea714eac02cd8baa498f4a0bf0276b