Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd468b3bca26824e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:25:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7f00d1f938a60b6e9a7526ced8dd15d3 SHA-1: ecf05d52eda51cb69d272c3ff3c71247893429e0 SHA-256: dd468b3bca26824e054e9f9f1507b234538b883709226c3e8feda94c8d087275
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/19880982987.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021062717013770554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabipipuxowevulowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/tejenasowenazurezekoxajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///kasuwowesijalinovod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801693b96d3---58456434326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuzfarm.ru/images/file/wupofuseboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9406ea93257d4cebddce568c4208bd27/46271127991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900290eb96d---dizolokewojanaliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/92923645075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/27418968480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasorazajesefemupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210901035028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/15692152530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129395fb68f4903830db4725631073b4/55391944481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///60860554657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b70d9a82cca0a316c9c1a90f987d43/suwigegenafunajovimuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/winetosiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/lugedijuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afab406a26c94f529eeab5a61f8e882a/xozavafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/19656911781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/29811124945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0df0c32dc---46933377017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/bovumidepowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/dewidukagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=compress+pdf+file+size+under+100kbPDF 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_off0000d7e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000effb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFB 17220 bytes
SHA-256: ac8a76f155784a0ce6dc49b31bcb2c42baad8a15460e09eb3cc4f991081472e8
font_02_sfnt_off00011c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C90 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 91cef4a4ac2fd6433c586bf825b86321a0a28c78841df79c898eb7d0d2287edf