Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dda4fd0108ff38a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.4 KB Created: 2021-05-01 06:30:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 94611a8add8b77026a0d570cbc6814b8 SHA-1: b9b505fca9ef40a39b47ea99123e445694adc083 SHA-256: dda4fd0108ff38a75c1b54d7fb834b58f01beea5863a502b26ccc67f2b52ae18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa3phs713ghqg9s9u4mim7eib6/49997324399.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/337fd2d634d83f922449bf98fe52423d/17725249012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b11a5b08c93f90d6b06f7fdef289386/wozivovapuzawopoxanomuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c60a0e5713---kural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3b5c857b1---91763820813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjhuf7lqa7h2mj4t76bn8ks2dp/pofevunusegafiburosibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2ca62f4f522d54716a0c3d85f96db5b/nunopimuruzepejotugusuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be5127d536---putitodugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081899e373ff---jaxojasikigelavufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eaa6ec5a0fc9fb3802301cb7b0a370a/64288910530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dliuiuiersfrjj94ha4dj2lhl/79332206559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ad1b1f5a4---42453975200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1ac940a7d---movijadonomekusebani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e353013adb9ea230854cf643bd985607/43579289363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=orbital+notation+worksheet+docPDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000176f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176F7 7472 bytes
SHA-256: 90235daf70eb0b59c1af03fdd144677d3249eb1ef875a99ac6da4a7ed5d5d2c5
font_01_sfnt_off00018a58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18A58 5352 bytes
SHA-256: b7e580af2612dc76e69d80834a11dd8f2817a8f7f798b115aea2b827f79cd27a
font_02_sfnt_off00019c8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C8D 12900 bytes
SHA-256: 48b7ce3e40a11f13f5f5e130212ab3bf1e916102effe5772ba9bb1975bcb1166