Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd4e55cd1d4ad4b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:24:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2f5dc50554f392a746656d674237b16b SHA-1: 811fbe7ce53119983a2e5fd8877be46266a431c3 SHA-256: dd4e55cd1d4ad4b3ecc8686ced4c8c18f85a2fcd148d0f2398e9a9682c12676d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it's a browser extension installation lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to exploit user trust to download and execute further malicious content, likely through a compromised link farm. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting reinforces this social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/dafositigudukasuvixu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/sukevijawubakonunurisunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/35878885812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylasuren.com/images/userfiles/imagefile/91476748206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelunomodiminur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47842440813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2g7bicd48nf5fnq5s05lfbr0bg/68612719838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a93c3c914cae88f9ada1d8a2f9dce4/fomikakozurevis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613230fa23248---53449339126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contua.org/userfiles/file/26413300108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajilin.com/upload/files/31010084407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/nukodizodogodekigegozubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6en1jt5pvv484tghd8aa8tci30/99712856203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxanopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/65405982680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/19222568243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/80486042770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/gedirejefamexusizedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfo-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/mijitiluvijupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youil.org/userData/board/file/24267124861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/22994883617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/natepubatugujijobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/wexubulazope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilygood.cz/files/file/49689447356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40qbhdvd3hnjnpdobd5l7mfpjv/69752755162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=could+not+connect+to+development+server+react+native+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_off0000eb01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10313 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 719d1497cab543a69a7e8e397dde066df25a16d988c8ee901f1be18f07f58192
font_02_sfnt_off000132cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CD 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 6dc33a573f63d643d3c326c5174b9adbe7fe284bc9c70abf9a27d576b771a402