Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddb582ae4f2fa496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-25 10:44:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: c776f4256288e35a6bfe666e1d4c4685 SHA-1: edb63a9e8f5f59c9b8170df6d5aa5131440e0d16 SHA-256: ddb582ae4f2fa4964ded13a2803cc506d4f11a740a715759df635de958a5b85b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a link farm and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content or divulging sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekigiginibudirutoxajop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b84453ef84---kadetodifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parateam.cz/file/jowozilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/punatidusukasekotaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/zukabazazomiwokonunajifut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/99608645294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/laneloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148c34e5cc8a---vilulenezuborozofozojidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/15009448931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/merigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blondel-bois.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24065087736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immsac.pe/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/85912380675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/takabepokalebeletofimova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zima.italie-ubytovani.cz/data/file/morolovoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nenojexugetufita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads/files/202109231300237931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/46919689130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/ruvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlspoland.co/files/file/57123314007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/lawavaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a259331bb77a93a5b597a3dba260bb7/tuzomiwinupewuxivipuvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613212a82d5dc---24583690663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/pezavebesepujedejixel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/fepoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=express+vpn+apk+full+premium+2021PDF 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_off0000af0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF0B 15240 bytes
SHA-256: 9cf710661abcde19140b459751b6bf19df4b395affe8ea0c33414d5e52cc3a57
font_01_sfnt_off0000d533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD533 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4A 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 856c92f3ee80824c46b97889d1bb0ee9a85f27861468fcd50ba1bde9c08305bb