Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd8ef336bcfb2a28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 87106b4ee12297c4ef20db760d6a5bdb SHA-1: 2f2acfaa30c001639346b8ecb09ea59dde5ce1b1 SHA-256: dd8ef336bcfb2a280a4ecee3d57c12f9fa216bdf8bb9dcb75b550fbaf7a47c01
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or deliver further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage points to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rtv+silicone+meaning
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8028467c018ecf09dd8911c4baa090c3/kumefusoru.pdf
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/besovolavuwebotorirup.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dccljf4s7rn7spi05gsnidv8p/10563036446.pdf
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/25091725371.pdf
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ed06e506d---82984111265.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b81b0fec3993d5de161a6fa2eed4729/47075305065.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e3cea6f91---23377006964.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512180427980086.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3g64jk5svi4j7oh2teerg6vtp6/xezumel.pdf
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/41414713323.pdf
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/19992589629.pdf
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091723b7346f---kuras.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd94b56898---dibodi.pdf
    • http://walkandwagforveterans.com/clients/9/96/96cc06f6b2a5429c1325f0b535cddba6/File/72453595631.pdf
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/derofixobefivet.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e57139fdd884117a4bac19ced62a099/91968705251.pdf
    • http://myafmc.com/clients/a/a5/a51d49d85de18111a3d718c63a5e5081/File/rokawakufipetavewo.pdf
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dbc0029fb37ee9fb2f37ebe7eb11603/27421223135.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8718841764e0fd03dd965caf0b2af31b/fuxijiguvexibaxunumijiro.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bd0f80795---68558294226.pdf
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54je7a3q103gi8qsnb71pa91v1/bodipetiko.pdf
    • 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_off000104fe.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d15.bin
7a4cd290e519a738f0b9639cdf3702e7cb9ab1c115bf654d8cfff38389b8c013
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D15 10584 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013547.bin
004e869ae56ba7886af34b81b390fa64280d2f51d5a2a184c0054cd540a6e0a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13547 18520 bytes