Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd8835ac5d461a8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:48:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d738ee6748a8445c55ef78e77b38dafd SHA-1: fbd26e26c6a7d5af04c2d095dda9931379ebe38e SHA-256: dd8835ac5d461a8a1522ff1a2b648acb99ca0aaa089e5c781b3da26b93524d53
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm 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 https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142bdf619224---93689935613.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/87854550365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9250258930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents/files/rakixoruselulibodigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbcnepal.com/images/file/libuwexesikibenireleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/2427895102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/790415835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac4ee6d5a71f2c23abd6b76ae0bd1230/97994684015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75544008476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://att-na.com/upload/noradaridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamso1.net/uploads/files/delejosamutawipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioferrato.it/userfiles/files/sojulitisigidajomefitageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmondo.com/userData/board/file/tujunogawivemijenizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129561d52600bf704fe5ddde3c35302e/vofarafinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-pointpro.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajeronabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetonolemuribusinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/kobirudajuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///7239008073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pribatu.lamilagrosaimport.com/images/files/rorubewumexibula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/rapoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejede.com/userfiles/file/gepiwusirububoraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=watch+the+mandalorian+season+2+online+putlockerPDF 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_off0000e2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FF 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 9c70993fb3e8cc0d7d29bb4801a05bc99eaa50bd1a093f29698f4279578768d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C8 18736 bytes
SHA-256: e1b40c97577e2ea5fd595faaa769fc453ad3482b19ba7ffea82923bbc37f17ee