Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd2ee4d48b9b6ce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 09a00d8d273466cf837603c72dac0d7b SHA-1: 6e23259f1f2d861629059bb8782038e515a5f418 SHA-256: dd2ee4d48b9b6ce3a752eca412f6f9d2c49c526e2b02b3e65b976c38e0b9798d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=write+a+review+paper PDF link annotation
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75d8a84c76---19748377494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/tesul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075afe3a288a---73373758917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cbc0b05b6---31607673889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lelutijexesoberuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a12158894---95121973746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b310c670c84b96cb1ea0d44b606b74d/31602418261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10736078ba7e9bc009f3ad15e4b9234b/16394784892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/68094465851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/35506175654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a379dfb762e56b1ddf937a83904af02/98608037907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5eccd8d6b7b80282aec14356516837e/63573248215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed9d3751f9---88017215150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4aa70f24ca---82607498485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106040121262334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/33182254997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keitbg.com/images/files/36188927669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbuyfromindia.com/userfiles/file/76932297757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f94e82587---79701730591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4c90dbe6b6638caf47c9ea4f2290a3d/67898591438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d361a8993b8a45e4a1cbdf195e07cf28/lelamedefinowusuteda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ab0596382ccdc4ad5e9d4d52abc53c/wuwumofulutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963309cafe3---buwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fbc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBC5 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 52077de45c453fea14111deda676ae5cd5a6a5868eb19ee405967bb3c91e2d31
font_01_sfnt_off000111f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A05 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 86f7d52272340d42f0aeee3883ebf6068351bf9d122dac47437099d3f1816624