Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddaabcd524aa2300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:54:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1e4caa62d4c90a1fbecac6ee6f8779f5 SHA-1: a5cf590e14417eb5c355bb6ad7e9019077549ed3 SHA-256: ddaabcd524aa2300135f175cd428097385ee7ce2d119ded029ff8ceb37c544a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tanauan+postal+code PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ore3jefc6837b2780juutosgpg/51624734927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edb5dace43890f2577f5edf1348cf65c/20752778859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/wojoxarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210908141008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://websbag.com/uploads/files/panab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuble-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/jurilabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/xakijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613413fd8ce51---7075133055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghibms.com/userfiles/files/55405360129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///34776019194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodabo.eu/userfiles/files/wemarabigevimuwamewavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/10462004744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitplus.eu/userfiles/file/19220375527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51bc5405a425f68ed1997bd16882d379/robekiboravokikopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52552924937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/tiwoxopetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bike-accessories.supersites.gr/content/ckfinder/files/geratuwobovuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/88756577896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/tepekopirogiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grifin.sk/files/jovoxiwiwiledazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvumucin.com/upload/ckupload/files/18430301563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/6013670001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000136aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136AA 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 35a26e97d6892e6fd477f921e7cdacbeaf0a97eacac119dc02529e5aa753dcc4
font_01_sfnt_off000166a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017ebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17EBE 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 93459c66d6e7d66d3019bb495deb8201663e5730c18eccbd2126f633854ed507