Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd5d5facdf93bd0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:35:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 33664684336c84849fc70e4a7eec9afa SHA-1: d12ba82d432373116ad21c1c437541d90146eb85 SHA-256: dd5d5facdf93bd0b476d509d8874a71a287b8def7c494e293de2730abcce1a07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content or phishing sites, leveraging a common tactic of disguising malicious links within seemingly legitimate documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a99df3b53c---59198563990.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/rapexupebukebadagupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a07c92530a---zarimuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131881882675---59796642888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahcarpets.com/userfiles/file/xevuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/63826256344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.americaninvest.net/upls/files/viburokijozubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/guwodujitemulurukuviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangshi-you.com/uploads/files/202109040543438675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82446094373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/36558472305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/kelufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/rabuvafavulomiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/58885782643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familie-schiecke.de/images/file/65647936553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/zewivikirobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/85683089032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05103a5788f8c5b0a98fd16d3b4d471b/21803747729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/vojowivafelonekize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mondoaudio.it/img/uploaded/file/pukurobakilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-media.ru/foto/ck/files/30596289850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litroshaber.net/resimler/files/fovudemoleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zanejenubivuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393fb7728c8---lagusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42146374320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=an+introduction+to+research+methodology+by+garg+pdfPDF 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_off0000d85b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85B 17896 bytes
SHA-256: bcbd548d83adda1495a1d8477b796765c36e0bd2d6cacf11678dc8f5b006aa20
font_01_sfnt_off0001069b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB2 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 4721c6301497757025b453660e4e64c1b51785845a7bf29086ff63873f029d2e