Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dda72d80dde288d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 10:05:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 646cf622373304c9b2f30962fef55257 SHA-1: 2fa322bd3a78a745bfe83993ade29e963a9aae36 SHA-256: dda72d80dde288d5b72239d043e0d85587bc4643dfe031a9d132c5a0005bb9c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to direct users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://chiesamadremarsala.eu/userfiles/files/mavibu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/nejinoxijebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/bejagalowuvuverowiligun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/lemigupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/68108754455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilusozojoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/97511949690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37179736982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crc.creativechange.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumixememulavipasuvutage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b400f00dc---fijenipapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/32321063367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--lv0az70cxar.tw/uploads/files/202109060834267501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2d2337155---xawilagapigijenojetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.smartfutureexpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevorukosoxawabemiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/wutemorugovexevawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pb-book.com/user_file/file/badoludepusekijadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.com/uploads/userfiles/file/giserobilajotiradun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4ca991b5899fed43817ddf5b36cbaf/42795232842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906072710690553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb2e1820c3c3aa7379a254e06d685331/85575338735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df640a7e639e3403a8467d4929b804bb/22024341971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralatravelpath.com/uploads/file/polibagufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=redmi+note+9+pro+freezePDF 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_off0000bffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD810 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 6ded05df05ee09c3c9fe84c21f5d7fe8edaa305369d01579f722dc269e105ffb
font_02_sfnt_off00010324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10324 10556 bytes
SHA-256: e3269eec320f7270214b08b62ce03e6d50b461817e3008a0b6bcf40324ce552e

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