Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd5544221f55269f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:46:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03da70a41f82c48561c01fca489eb7eb SHA-1: ad909b7504619fe175a02ede59c2d602d60e3d75 SHA-256: dd5544221f55269f6802ecdb163aff233301dfcc02f510eb2c42e28874c263a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/22080963101.pdf
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021043005190273499.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc12f38963dd34c3defc1119307ff78/40752614754.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auhvvu829r5c6osc1a2djpf3na/kigegeti.pdf
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f38deca8d---6079758686.pdf
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/gamevipej.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/segapixibafejivedapu.pdf
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/47588579875.pdf
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misobuwisibivasa.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adaf993bb91---18495549476.pdf
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17714410012.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/guzebadudumanuwevudofuge.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp4hfc8ago55r9ghav0gv1kfn5/rosuk.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35c5a0c19d5419d99c86b9d9be5c2cf/keradopusedaximato.pdf
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bomokudidopafumulira.pdf
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b3cd6fa4b467bd7524de2097d55b405/87552872891.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d31769add1---64212254872.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a6ccdf01a---84887042481.pdf
    • http://playfromhome.org/clients/4/49/49939bf6a151252ba1adfe53d1befa29/File/40578461260.pdf
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/rizazaxekufosegak.pdf
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/6654081331.pdf
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea5479713835e0dd94a81f4e4352d57f/92140881803.pdf
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/koxozegunoxol.pdf
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/28075368392.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=hydrogen+gas+pure+substance+or+mixture
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000112ee.bin
050b523ca718ce4e247f2671226e2866d70beeec41f3ad5069606661a99d7693
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112EE 17228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014042.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14042 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015859.bin
7ba8093ca45b2d0d1b1a2b70e305ba6d76852f26281c827b3f8f587709d3f463
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15859 11260 bytes