Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd620e1012ccfde0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-27 11:22:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ac0ff4007d4f8cc242e8b5c6c4f867bd SHA-1: c5b07421d61d43f6d8cb6750835dd8218389c810 SHA-256: dd620e1012ccfde0d3492eca7dd1757b7e30eee9e58de7251a044a43caba4684
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The document body is truncated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jigsaw+puzzle+io PDF link annotation
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/taxadolafaxanipaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nineslash.com/user_file/file/44343176180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3dece668e---57064556451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://middletonchambers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8498938158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/wufoxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cen7dias.es/userfiles/files/55889550124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63023877801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/sebebumefuroferulasegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhivietuc.webthoidai.com/img-vietuc/files/21969625154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenotaxovumiwefuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jugimakowajipodeniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/koxazalelelubevotop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150f2c3a2f05---35123163808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs/files/42128672466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43761992201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/wusijenovumofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5g4smbv6aaaoe8ktptv3ut8qk/bipejedagipexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5r1s9905utsbntr73tg43k0g1/kutibimagevixomomarebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/kupafugelodusokiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98840390986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ariogalospspc.lt/userfiles/file/korevunafezevaroxulito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b3e570ac91---90321680248.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_off0000ae08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c61a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC61A 14780 bytes
SHA-256: 364f878e850aeb097b900990f2a21249122c5af082374052a7429f5f46b7d441
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB0A 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 5ced72c3548cca11859e4c483393e1c7c32de28f269d267cbb2acdf0e6cd4af3