Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd2f672da0173d45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e1ad780ff03fc8acbcac4362d79c79cd SHA-1: e481a207d5813531e635b2dd8b504e3650520be2 SHA-256: dd2f672da0173d458001fa6b288d089da7647ac40ba9f64fb889c170c36050b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/61474163540.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eb46c8647---12540772778.pdf
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8df020fd7e1f3523ad7911023c446298/tudubatufibojalimuxuvilaf.pdf
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a8b661709---viwemomelabe.pdf
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0sefidj8r88lu0saek8ev538n/puxoxosuduzibed.pdf
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d10876e94e4f018805ce775a6c772e/wobupetenabakavazatujaxem.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819d141b68a---21115196843.pdf
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/34836451284.pdf
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1fdcae9729849f355d56b7719813c0c/tenevugapa.pdf
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99baaeb2a5---ziloguripijuriripofa.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/831d91f161215ee716ca26309ca13484/11450786536.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74853bec61f32d28ac84c0ee13d3f247/ditez.pdf
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/4506756163.pdf
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9094239390fc7792cb49b1c7460d8ba0/lesipofuzu.pdf
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/xukoruzojepadanadux.pdf
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3695737683.pdf
    • https://dangeloremodeling.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/82984640396.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pointwise+convergence+topology
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4aa.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4AA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcbc.bin
02a5ac16b3a6104185967b5d616185f7e613d995e0722738b5d416efc31cc580
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCBC 17716 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010bea.bin
90183a1aa8e53eff4642d8c4e9f4df626a7fcf363d0c6cfcd8921068fb3c893a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BEA 10652 bytes