Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd8db202762b7724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 09:51:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7032c7ff78f9790f1702ef0a33199e7e SHA-1: 5d1321b030f5edcb262f95998afed96d092897cf SHA-256: dd8db202762b77243d5a23b4cbca31a6f1ff56a8895f0ecd83f488509fc989c9
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 Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9630

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=data+structures+and+algorithms+in+java+2nd+edition+drozdek PDF link annotation
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917dc02d923---betikujimudoserajokuboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765ddd9d442---xiwileloluxusarivazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/rifuzosodokupagezeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/je8gpf57i0tgbkmji3p96ihl76/zapuvutozofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/36491832464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/17808931558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6355d65aa---wigutumunajekojimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbb2c0e0757af3309c0de4780ffb9237/58635454485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0788771f2569156ef6cf767744477aa3/lujififaminonogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/vujelakezaxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/kibanowenigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91fgod4osov0db1ke68m0o7q41/zameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bcebed9cbc2bf5661cd5467c00e3f5/mikonoxebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/lajepewojunuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suleymanporoy.com/img/userfiles/files/42978635080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20r1ov2uq7bn6rlf4vrlula9t/supawofofozejelakoduboziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43c883f83b---vefiwexulopupexidutulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/16191913515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/54767990491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081346809254---33741209957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/jijezivufamuduriluvitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/tigajimumoraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhnhomdinhhinh.net/uploads/files/83790373883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/31872620439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/suvamolugunawu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f14a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14A 30732 bytes
SHA-256: b293a92884455b13bcd8cec1fe1aeb687ec53048a2d51425086be4fa1fb684c0
font_01_sfnt_off0001459e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1459E 11384 bytes
SHA-256: fabd7d00496d6527514ceed7729a755da63d31d843ce92851c84a59a1d96fcbe
font_02_sfnt_off00016026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16026 17788 bytes
SHA-256: b55580b6d1a0a33d54072da2cde8c6650d55689d3afc380e2c93ee92b4f3347f
font_03_sfnt_off00018f24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1