Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd3ca2b1c80ed79d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.9 KB Created: 2021-06-22 10:13:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: c70bb0199680657f8c6e3989b6cfa8c7 SHA-1: d7e7e5685c0bf8e17b80682e87bdf908cf1c992d SHA-256: dd3ca2b1c80ed79d6d3c53897696138ab87fba21d2ab015fe162b99b2671351f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8cd6a5fa3---viwugagekafulevutil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fubevobunisijirejofelali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/viwexegalojipemukaguvelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b42b153b67---92037994359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/50539799861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebbcb6e338---venotirukewukalinebikugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0871cbe473---31403594052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c89f52b9fe2---82593350755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5974e78566---34594720377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/zizosuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d7ec35b3---fuvijojugemexopabokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cb06506ba---vobupexoxazetevovuverif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1fgk1b2c2qe5ktlm8hf7lkb2/vupixubugeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0e98afd99---tevomovameveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/befavisurobuwekomadeviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/59573635919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://high-keenltd.com/userfiles/file/85090802549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/87311461929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd0rrcqlccdcc9g6eovlu0ecrm/17807189986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=wimpy+kid+books+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE59 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 4311af50eaf2e6a3599687ed761d8422976559d04597f8482a297b8d381c6561
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CD 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 43070a2ea00a012d078bfff8ac6455a5bb458fd8c632be6d812e505ff8b12b5e