Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd3f768a265b204f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 03:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6887079a2d802e3acaf4589899b20a4e SHA-1: f83d4f4a82d6b1974243cd729989dea134d99af8 SHA-256: dd3f768a265b204f7dfeb0fd91d618aa820041f9966b245edd985128fc3f3a4b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. Heuristics indicate it's an image-only document with a click-outward action, typical for directing users to external sites. Numerous URLs extracted from the document point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://ustunbilgisayar.com/userfiles/files/lolisofatarakel.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/nuxajapenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcivan.com/admin/UserFiles/file/bolonefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coverybox.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26131556068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210924104449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137afdf46632---xanizinuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/25507119356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/malomazodurizagofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a1a0616b12509b18d2fda59c6aa3a2/28355699272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/84352817148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/e03a53ce16af9ffd45a036af33c63ca9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149cecac1926---25967441863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf54665fde43404153bfb1abb78c9fe/butetifujij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/jezogotowav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/koxunukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/ledukasirakusepafijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.com/uploads/file/bizilexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/25778284642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bf3935975d---zelukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/zupubupozapokevusoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613245d314db7---28934075561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/sujovuluguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40e3bb5464f08d47a8ed226f9e81dc3/biwopivotazosiziwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/64936777842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+glass+castle+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000b248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB248 14348 bytes
SHA-256: 1ecb29d7a6a9fd2f593a7aea405b36fb2a68116b3b7e1c3833c3398650e9f6c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD638 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4F 10456 bytes
SHA-256: a4a22be387e8ee64b39486cb3d5980a974f8ef6d6883e7be79a41a59c4f76a34