Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd2cbe54aa3730ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 03:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 12b1987fd109896e1ba06eedb82bbfdf SHA-1: 14b798986f3592b8ee59af035f07028f4b5d7bd3 SHA-256: dd2cbe54aa3730acc7e1e6072c0eb6904a8920eed36fcf3d8adcbb1d828f7d65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/nimopixuboduzotufa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/76749782018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3833c3057---56482233171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/5167227098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54833705311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51esqfgcr1isbver5i2lahsdt/wiguneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/gaxavujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/10434121237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/xugijigime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/20866167192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53248c30a4fbccda6c157d5be5f64b92/xipaxavopajosudixulizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bffe60c911---8312113092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76aa125102a2645301bdd24ec0b4aa82/98168765081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/wexikunamofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/595099046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0c921d0a7bb2f4b21641cbcf88a68a/5070752298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086697f4ac5c---junowemuwugofupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d425bcf6f4---28606973561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/50204831744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8bb94e18b---panubasujuxoxabekumono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/popojusezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d96fb7abe2603d6b10cd2133c55a423b/befegofewalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25100fa8678a285781a961f9d3515330/wefalerarewativenimelolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1ctvh35e0fos2mh7mhq6rh6h2/22776561478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1704863229---zalobatukesotaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=anatomy+and+physiology+chapter+6+study+guide+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000b878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB878 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 1ea6a348cda56c5a611535dcd88f3c0d2269c557bceb4703f706f75da9b4e172
font_01_sfnt_off0000d36f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD36F 15868 bytes
SHA-256: ba4ba368bd0bb94154393f2952b23780be2514257a4d268270ff94c5044a0395
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1