Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd589675ebf01dd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:32:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9d247383b4d9426ca151368c82fc032b SHA-1: bc0ce44bcc6038cb7f55e388041a4f726c10c7e9 SHA-256: dd589675ebf01dd27ab3207aa3ed0bf4aa89e6d28f77e4088579d38d836714df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where+vpn+is+illegal PDF link annotation
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/zitopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjgsfd8aggctv7g6bhfs9r1n70/9832136798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021061120420233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99cb9ffbe8a92398acded25881b9bb9d/gowidesexume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210618175717_591682895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81290225132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c524d527945---finafezojumobagupufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/55057659063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160974aede5b52---numudaturejikogoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cfa0913100cbb699ad9ee1d025957e3/biruxukolofidotedodewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d61f3bffcedc0ec21389a7b20fc29e68/17582649666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kn4369p1cc9l5935bcspqg45u2/22807259981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606facc827c3d---92234114748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/bibijamidilepuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a6lhdvtj764nhm91n5952ffht/47235886137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2h6g9l07jm99andaj8546ri7f/90514142250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.chupload/file/puwaxoweseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da52b7436fb---kejanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3q7dt1cimk1jg70voefad0jd3/zamitanakuwuwosodonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/zaxiwalomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75e2eba34b---dulaposusotofabixabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d07b5e6cae9338f8b69f88c40804625/71999679088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/58184638728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldnaturalfood.com/image/upload/File/mipajizufazaxilunemesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915db82479a---fizinasofuwimanaganutuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0F 16872 bytes
SHA-256: d94aee43e28cc18817b7d9d101753d1b5f0832944db6f9a04ba257f51286583b
font_01_sfnt_off000128c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C4 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 9d9e2d503f925defbec0d7167972d696b8823cdec37cb38cc0f6e1114209844d
font_02_sfnt_off00014026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14026 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1