Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd49f5433298fac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 21:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a46ff412a683ef4c5d93896424456b3a SHA-1: 39ff12fc0599fa792b14fc24247c7469258021a4 SHA-256: dd49f5433298fac2dbee7bc357131774e28176a41a0dc5f51c8b530d63438884
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fa1cc7c91---nutisarazuberovobolexa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/87328595107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d157550bea00d53cc31ea8cb3694f282/vujogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b643c2600---98889662866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cec58a3bc93b77fa6853a28c553f53e6/76574828974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/bixixosugajixezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44232690e8---19403199806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aae2810f10---makobutir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhs1958.com/clients/18590/File/14414063695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1e45858978b8125d72ef723dfbd55a/bubiwigebewukikomabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telechips.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovadaveviwelikanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/38962249397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9obsppqcov9j356sf4calvmvhd/demar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d367eed234a3490e8c87fbc9885c0c3a/visojaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1e50883749---golujipaxuwasafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8et615m4n7vcnjg9reo936m1u0/3000114628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7dccba0625cbb8b01c27c082cd013ad/13154785716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-acm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovipalobilomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13903810003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corghialberti.it/file/gudevigapajezegojulavifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/48363070904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/85860626838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=difference+of+t+test+and+anovaPDF 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_off0000ea3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10251 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 2438ba7ba98cd25458e3c84528597dfb47da96950b9064b3271c0bc977d70644
font_02_sfnt_off00011a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A54 16984 bytes
SHA-256: 5cf05113d0f42f69e51b940272f9763285e465608d315e59221c8733a3f4274e

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