Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd5bc878f4120500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8d0988ed74b6c5ae5bfa2f4fed64a589 SHA-1: 8a65c7969543167c96155ed7d70a0d2d99ccdbad SHA-256: dd5bc878f41205004119175e985d8aa72e933d589cbeba5c8ae4ff5b6128fb41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/sufopevejozemej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xetuvenolimale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/59177298903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/26718177546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/78608655106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614224ddced60---zexozizebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/neqlg5n3hkivcg43g0qagim4eu/bapemafuwodapizavijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407bb5c19b4---bemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/75862373731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-customer.de/userfiles/file/46367584203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49565811761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/74986597748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/gamuxasidatisasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1374cefe9dc3e9d81fcf1caf1cb29b9/rifijufipogapevegilexabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/82631011002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/likenorifunutulajewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021092005155573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109060921315742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/64654081090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s13cf5ef.alojamientovirtual.com/ropadefutbolbarata/userfiles/file/2585884932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc6fb59c1a---ravesetefixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=iannotate+for+macPDF 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_off0000d6a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBE 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 146af971b1fc6d4799059716e69197e78b5a7fa509214546dcd48882c6e4d6d7
font_02_sfnt_off0001056a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056A 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 68a87e5a399c380a3ef08c1eb4cd5fe8c8eda3d41926b3f32fbde6fdbe0a583f