Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd718662964045b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:41:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1baa566d86403979330ed5ec3ae36a96 SHA-1: 29d00f6582f6244a09039596455daa6a450b4b07 SHA-256: dd718662964045b7d484921025657a0e34197a9f9440f94daaf3515cccf516d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c828079600---90687367376.pdf
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/gamomo.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c0d384b8d---jofasetinumakuvepam.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098307177ba2---xapiwesivumaxutusesutu.pdf
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/40527862987.pdf
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c4d3296dc---99553262298.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979e78c4093---64596141284.pdf
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7dd98e415da0591933fc375e21796b2/29358757859.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/gugorebirosesedotorej.pdf
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/19698154799.pdf
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69da0a8a3862cf3d2475f398e27a5f24/memavefed.pdf
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/17338104497.pdf
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1def39223---86784299272.pdf
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/47604078055.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9319pahccebgq2ko5g441kjtrn/23845083409.pdf
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/90555655786.pdf
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/28987664904.pdf
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6u75j24op7rj8lafmn2ru7me/gidumatakozip.pdf
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcc4029cc9d---8859400770.pdf
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8fa2dd03f---ziwixuzojobafivojubipiz.pdf
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/55594795339.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23f4da5543---xenavubifivowenizamep.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+bottles+of+water+does+it+take+to+rehydrate
    • 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_off0000e937.bin
663594aa78f443a5d67d6c5d6814cf80df48d91b1be8e10014f199823163470e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE937 17324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001163f.bin
960e1ab84e0c00e5c48623d71130cbc52d0efde0404830ed6a8fa6eee47e2991
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163F 11044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC6 16792 bytes