Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddc07a41d38800bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9fd6ccf4d67b557c24f207136a12906f SHA-1: 8fade5edda085b82697dab19a42b4cf71d04c1a4 SHA-256: ddc07a41d38800bd328765223aee9b2d34a8419a91574060baf56a7b188ac5d2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification as malicious further supports its malicious nature. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://sanagustin.cl/files/21554692958.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/43463298723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/75248517940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74563138563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/faroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/163125414231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/bulewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50063111159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/kesesapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210912163147019565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46677772108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/3049151569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbes.nl/media/files/63100103348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/433cee0ed6e9b2f656119354f85e5d50/pewobiwufipikifawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fbfccea828---35857100133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614533b2a874c---lasopujedukoxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrumschoolka.pl/photos/file/pefozizuver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/febiwogozowenufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/kuxadawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcct4erbslk0bv8d150urde2lf/15702626131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161d64acb3234d1a1a54e2e2907afd3e/83234530885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/noxewefutebexaxezexatedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/xidefewawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/dimefufimedomodojuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=reason+why+play+store+not+workingPDF 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_off0000de9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B0 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 7574b34c9b83d046b5768ccf30ea2a30b638aff63a3978dc6b3656c0905f282c
font_02_sfnt_off000124b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B1 10868 bytes
SHA-256: dbd3dc5567f9fb9a1aae1058fe9efb5058372842af7fd1730fd678e269808336