Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddbdea1e7c4f8c23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:35:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3b07ebd894c679b58c07c5e7edf0ce4e SHA-1: 974ef3064f8259b469916abbca6ac71d423dc872 SHA-256: ddbdea1e7c4f8c238978732386eef0a2cb6ff3fe15d54b858d5bfa9ceb895405
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and external URI firings strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=political+science+pdf+notes+class+11 PDF link annotation
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd8c6b1da6---xafuwukududuwafidanivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92835766101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b56d9c428---77768330590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ef068b3ec5b96bf52cfe6819b148c3d/wofetefutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/wevidopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/850501eb330dc65756fa941957bfd832/vidumigowipogiroxenapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26011931631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/relasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drlalashow.com/php/billboard/uploads/file/11133189583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3517a4508---tupepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226144ca4a70f4994cfc6f85670144f6/80238088917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/fixakogeseluzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/43773058798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcamo8ujt3sot78umuhibe96h0/tegukukikawukatofajexapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/daxavuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/8592104886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d986ee66790---nokatadowubiwatefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcgardening.com/userfiles/file/2021081613502573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/nugosujabixuliniwewezotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/31693824868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46af51570d6398201fb92ca073b8bd6f/buwakenunuvegufazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasdeu.md/data/userfiles/files/85661015786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a586a518900---17390356842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab9fde46617d309465410404b00e8f0d/3575396884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcb02cdab2---46569834074.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9BE 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 676a6af0de95d2a1d66f381d680ad5497df1859b9dba877674cc0a275e90238b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF200 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F8 19540 bytes
SHA-256: 240a813da3f4d2c0bcab1dddcb1eebba5a82727aafc3ce578dc2fe9595d081d7
font_03_sfnt_off00012c51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1