Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddab97f9d656d851…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 10:14:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 20863460f9f96f9107e39bf0da5d6805 SHA-1: dbe70dac37ee0fbfed56029149973c47af5c2a1c SHA-256: ddab97f9d656d851eef9b70fb333c84d332726592300c5225648b9b47031dff4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It contains numerous external links, including those pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF acts as a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+for+popcorn+time PDF link annotation
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/rekomovutefejasesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/4439585718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7c480096e---fimijinigotuzafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystar.net/filespath/files/20210916164210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfb0773a24---pixegemeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinoremepubevabadizulodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu2.com/contents/files/34076667216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/jiwuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucsokszekszard.hu/images/news/file/kugijagikifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/wasajumelexolenebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evpersoneli.net/ev-personeli/file/11922235427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnshoppingbag.com/upfiles/file/54019394148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614966ca8e110---69169636187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/fonikuzekizudexasida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegnasrl.com/userfiles/files/33299997007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/katapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutidazezikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/85600424124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/28272605999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a6744961e5645ff04f3370d2c05447/lokagakozemosabiboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsolarny.com/userfiles/file/16343186422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fizjoactiv.eu/Upload/file/11930517418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/61325876296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/subikejijeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/62001123742.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_off0000c0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D8 16336 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc03ae8e4927cbad2480338bd45098602e82d65c4a203a385ed39ffabc57622
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102F9 10340 bytes
SHA-256: 8f570222bca729e3e664759d121cfb3049050866d82afc00dcb00acec6623102