Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd9b787cb6f4a74e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3c1fc1d955940431400a3bef12303020 SHA-1: b5c18d5fecc59559b8d4903f7ed07cafee84d4f0 SHA-256: dd9b787cb6f4a74ec2091908b8126ff6909624412957740e66fab3e80af1297c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or potentially malicious websites. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/67672495960.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opk6todbdsr2fl8ludvh4k9atf/45517764906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608468aee735e---tagegodotovuvidapajugowad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea8bb50ce4---21588031461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eff6865e534a5d405bdb96f6c3a09541/zowasojipevapukexuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sm8thbs1c0mbcerogf954ja6v0/20933278371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be48b4e49a63c13f701d42203687ceea/93398487088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b07092b3f57100cdea671bca413ba8e/63743854029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e20e3db00c---venabomaxutigamifara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/fovujibivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/texenore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11ec6c447c---vurizude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/vofebikulinuzizisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vterno2q8beo32e8v0vj7ra5vb/46109888452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/fitidavenuraxezomani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kfb3opilpqb3gj71ftqlck0n6/mijiwofurefuzariworewagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/polavupibojukadoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ddce0d345---93671393800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948f172b915---71048615467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7fa5b7ef19---demupamiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161003bd3d3cbf---gerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/47988208923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/19072687846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7704181f8---94041021117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/ligexafinuponiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tally+charts+worksheets+grade+4PDF 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_off0000d03a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD03A 10788 bytes
SHA-256: ea9d0ede93f9f29f4aeca25d9a084b2f1beb3e65c1e006f328402936048e9611
font_01_sfnt_off0000e93a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93A 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 0c40a278d4cf751fff308a54a83471482f011fe615c604e15028140102dd574a
font_02_sfnt_off0001161a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1