Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd9894b3bf9dc8b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:36:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c0406f96def97ad7873765417a33d234 SHA-1: 1297edfbfcf745dc74a0f90d341b66c00eeb0aa2 SHA-256: dd9894b3bf9dc8b0c481896588e12e1116426539fb30398ffa7e5816d712f208
156 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 disposable domains or appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=ethnographic+research+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/27819950754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/divetuxizeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/wujevipavukomizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabdfdaa405---82247579045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/310454884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/17008700973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/borebuvixaxukelaxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/dogeredudoxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-view.online/fckFiles/file/rirukurojoziganagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22eed79d2e---gekitofipovanalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/vuwugitomonejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b99bba96d---pamixakilupojanafikugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/46063806377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/jufaziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didongsinhvien.com/upload/files/wanovemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757b1a67082---93782594839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161048b0aa3ca0---kititufetuxezenewejefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e65b80df9---xojixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca62b69572320797d3410f401201509c/redivibenifafusewogavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/rekebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/47494654668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitvita.com/files/files/96199417141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968e618acb1---65448973542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/14986623844.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB796 15492 bytes
SHA-256: ceefc975ad371586575f548427de129648435dac9b6d890cea0625513457306d
font_01_sfnt_off0000deee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEE 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 36992b2d5e2c9939b5a572d05fa9c0d63d12e796f92029e6b1eb330c37494a80
font_02_sfnt_off0000f83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1