Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd8e981e6717c3a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 01:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 356023952728ca0307717b4219638c03 SHA-1: 3e9d9cfc30e89d3c8e5fdf4166c0c3b99e07f173 SHA-256: dd8e981e6717c3a0e5ec8c7c5af43558892cbd2c82ea3eea090373f472730584
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hess%27s+law+and+the+enthalpy+of+combustion+of+magnesium+lab+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b40ccc6930c40bebf83b291f2c67ba/jowow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cab88e58a4---98796076487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0dacbbd0d---xatapevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b8256a25d---verikava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/zaxegadibirimirupomezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7708d72339afc3125f2793bec76380b9/piduduzuzanenegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/70737687205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742b850d112---xuziletijanotedizixejifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/kejabevonesotidopagajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/41170710275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abqfkjidpl4137dbrjdle1b5gv/78480104840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/camo9d564atrtif9oo0cvmf3da/41342287526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f12f98e28bbb3e9ca07212bd995c38b5/60736017310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0cc6cac103---lexebizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/poponatugafisumepisuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9228666164---wulimojuvanedowuvubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b268fa3713c7735f4ca5987ae93699/rosujimiwipukedale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pah0vpak25aaohnsuahsnuj3t9/zamemunufini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/99577288384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985392caf00---31615261213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985f14a087f---vovukakolimelijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3f9eba8f1---74494246481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/fezopatipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607864944d337---gosuwasijujibexikagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinesacredshakti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb6926471e2a96f7ce0eb4aeeb5ffff/9501540937.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_off0000f687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF687 18400 bytes
SHA-256: 8884dbb55d40f99d8d435e81ed34006e80809a4d98ac357e4d6b1f6abb32442e
font_01_sfnt_off0001271e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1271E 1988 bytes
SHA-256: 00dc7dfd65c2245f5989abc53a2d6c1f8ffd55b7ea2360bf753469f20f5b3c84
font_02_sfnt_off0001304e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1304E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14865 11532 bytes
SHA-256: e2b6a49042c29f0494a5a5840106e1abe97f24f993e3fde8c2cc9ec224eb7f4f