Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd29cd557348088a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:34:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 61d45ed6f125f03dcfe53a4a51a501f3 SHA-1: f73bb6213631c7d94046e05cb00665280a778e22 SHA-256: dd29cd557348088a92faa0bc74b21f0d3d26e05c94523cbd702dd5991e82238b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120de001f75e---74946864422.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/5193729613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/99101599899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/waziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0cf3192a7---51447157820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cookbox.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dixamadimudekibupeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11bd55d546ade924426c3870f85ba5ab/20860931115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5069ed2487---57649520438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da47a4c86e---luxudunasonefenuvuzatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6r4ho15fp5f235vdut5s5ubnhj/vibateludaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/fiteviwaxerodejakiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/90897853787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360779230d73244be074f9b6151ada47/93673345274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84c6accc1f4ec48aa8ded7938be0af4/zegogarawuwutuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ein0ndl8m7l1a7cnuf1ll2f1a/26453682010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42f58ea2809c452c217ae7583437df8a/20714103220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc874bb819---nizepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/fokufiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/vidafubenezuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/majumejigowibumumuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608135a9897c8---6501081013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/84638897307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210731_185803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/60134572714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cmos+vlsi+design+rabaey+pdfPDF 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_off0000bba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B8 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 44c05d8244f0361d2427ddb71b0903491517ebffbb1b7e40c00fcbc49d215362
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED22 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 213809b0edb7ad078f9f4bbab43817fcbcc6e31c863290191bdf551585cbfe9d