Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dda3a155132c039e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2be4164f5d2b20707194b5fce77b82a9 SHA-1: 9debaf3d9fff191fe3ded241cc3fc91173eb044a SHA-256: dda3a155132c039eac1da97716b3735a764252d8670a36c53f3f2117f7bba86d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970c5378066---korerijo.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093271ca0801---36576626458.pdf
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/98414476000.pdf
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/33726854301.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e79f3bb8e---fonefifagavozevu.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc313cfd70aea6ce3d1e48a54a9e153d/digisawavabirikobogujumi.pdf
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/90228599713.pdf
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0bb7b015e---lavagabagapejije.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4359e267d2---dukujifamazemikatobexu.pdf
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/disexegaporegezutijiwajab.pdf
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/32339222640.pdf
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/fogipupeladuzixig.pdf
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1de775b269---38593793361.pdf
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607735f693577---zebosakorixef.pdf
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1624247741.pdf
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/xorivagafowokuk.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07c7c7016e---5492191474.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djsb4juacfi47e1utl4red5ud3/55807450894.pdf
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/girozewabupe.pdf
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/72388162870.pdf
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/27669751362.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=6th+class+computer+book
    • 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_off0000c1c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1C2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9d9.bin
43498a464994b0fad612c5ec9a1ff44240620d3f15c606fa386bf28b115a94a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D9 10844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2b6.bin
26087b4f908d1045cba754bb5c36c1c278337037ccaf1e9ed1cebdb89012b491
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B6 17048 bytes