Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd9b33ff4e3f9b3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 6fdca5f603c531d8a3f3c537039d00ad SHA-1: 41ecab6c14a5aa27c643c7ab118e9d66ec57dc62 SHA-256: dd9b33ff4e3f9b3c260b2e6740f9e17d31e9be7c2e83a63f7bcbceb31353855a
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also returned a high confidence score. The document impersonates Office 365 and contains links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a credential phishing or malware delivery attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall phishing lure strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=color+switch+mod+apk.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr1bfspq7fbooq3a7p50kr0ahb/nisafalalabozowis.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/dijatululopexazawana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharks-cz.cz/images/file/13436456902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/kapefonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomilano.eu/userfiles/files/midobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/vinorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e3ba8ac75---xawejawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/76085962531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abakus-routing.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58373965454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15906704557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://importfoodfair.com/userfiles/image/2021/09/file/zumumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/34512680934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/17102375502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/2556042124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.com/userfiles/Files/sabakozodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/1728277458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/vejuwisaluvojugugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aeecae5925---68084950049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/wanoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/25628412815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/lapafexefimopewotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisilivuxurejiwiweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needlugs.com/userfiles/files/12139485223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91a5b042a588e7c8db4fdaf12d538a52/84572569132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/72361379664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/pivarujikapejonugikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=color+switch+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000e350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE350 10752 bytes
SHA-256: b57fb88af0bc3f538cb600bd9a1aa53c7deb4e3a3aae0b3f4721e2ca935fbee4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC24 17928 bytes
SHA-256: cabc3369083842a18c7f2c16fc669f68a47f33de392a386b29f9a5165bd3fdc6
font_02_sfnt_off00012af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1