Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddbd7098f0bde692…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:11:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8936da875e946076f5ce2800b9eb8ff5 SHA-1: 9f504ae344d7e4aea96780dccc6c774df972a602 SHA-256: ddbd7098f0bde692d8115e57f2ea6989c3b52b6bb0915cad3815f6c31f14afef
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document employs social engineering tactics, specifically a browser extension/update installation lure and a visual download button, to deceive users. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification further indicate malicious intent, likely involving the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143811b1486c---danodusejosa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/18108320075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/42235145246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/goxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146c7ac59a84---99871062580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45922485222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4537369150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomelieagency.com/userfiles/files/99267069484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d698227b2e8238861df2e993a5f7ae6/zapibode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surveycook.com/upload/tmp/202109/file/bifodazuwebirisufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalltechnik-kutschi.at/95252622661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/tunesusowodifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d25bb13f5481fa80732c3fa1294382/42944913412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/sugagosipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/rimasurexemetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/77720055405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbletreasures.com/uploads/image/files/52225269036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/23607744227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nko8820259adfh44htohvph36/78876138428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-chengeng.com/uploadfile/files/43393464720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peknanevesta.sk/media/file/18915054965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/28830083066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/82771843080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/wexiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/18315590188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+lite+free+for+androidPDF 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_off000166b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166B9 22404 bytes
SHA-256: 059c232fc7d80a006618cedac09b196255a11cc0968edd8e20cebf0590eb9aa4
font_01_sfnt_off0001a22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A22B 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 9180f017e104a98845fe82a4d750d136fce3079557e55886ac8adcdad825f46b
font_02_sfnt_off0001ba42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1