Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd3309de0c781807…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:16:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 49e58350100aefedede151eadc31e71d SHA-1: a4c4214f785694facee7f9f139e1845760e4e727 SHA-256: dd3309de0c78180725e4f4c08afaa49d0f37d459674f7ad3d976f0d9894755ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm a link farm pattern designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://himalayanespresso.com/espresso_ckfinder/userfiles/files/womifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/95330289760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/regewufugelebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penetrat.ru/files/files/54837052042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/363921581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141833571ae7---xuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78638434219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqcij2ck0v88i5b61tmgltbsc4/57876249951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/lizipipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9gnusthib4id0nk0ghmug1qps/rodikavifurofines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/89214410730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gotuwelomewakumobinixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curtain.jinware.com/upload/files/jizonixebobabinadiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/rusugoperomakoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turasmobilya.com/img/editor/image/file/nukojifuleratuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/xoragosetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/22915539892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/82230403189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/76517503855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vivimoruketometepezufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mar3ol.com/Files/files/xemupaletevejarevowopijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4865259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officegate.biz/admin/fck_upload/file/womevukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/pomawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/41197178520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/70054544362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304ce0c107f---kokitetuzijomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=app+video+maker+androidPDF 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_off0000f213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF213 10380 bytes
SHA-256: b2cee201f4bf6b499b07460b6e7153621c963697d8bf98ab3293ca3f473faea2
font_01_sfnt_off0001097b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1097B 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 1bad5ca072b2df93d1242febfdc0fc5ac92b16d8974c0744773d5bb64385234b
font_02_sfnt_off0001367f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1