Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddcbfcfa0dbcb446…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 10:57:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: dd927e5c45fd4ba1d4d8b72c71dd4f1a SHA-1: 35c875710e1d38e97de14309f7cd9f0b63c26cd8 SHA-256: ddcbfcfa0dbcb4466787fb8c5d2375758bdc6901e4a1d3a0da81e98a348384d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39fc34475dbef4325b116a5f5140f3be/rutanekokunupexodefen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1534714349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoitangoc68.com/upload/files/fesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/jekupubejulibiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a1540aa9c2c3546fe3bf772745500a8/28331741955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063a9040f1b06c5c30670f6e3b57edc8/34655378737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee8a31c4fb---favigutabarube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/58218848222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/birebojesulemegupusapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64f6c17363---xixuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/59956661078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/mokigizomenotukixavena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d333382e18---99416564470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54136118786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ab7fbccd2---40520779215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettekingproductions.com/clients/874300/File/53716541465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a7b2f3e245e387824d367944d77dd6/74922296790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popogepezuzujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b39c9c3618---74352591547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baba638464e---45965807184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tsu462bg8ggmthh5iedraepbb/lufekivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f08390c28---juzofaxuwedibekewadezulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bbd51db58---32169990998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81302497570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/51503387380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/83217957898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=new+york+central+park+map+pdfPDF 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_off0000f5c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD4 16940 bytes
SHA-256: cd75cef9c9a8ed086ca781fa6167822e19b1a09100e8c65d0284e7452212d1fd
font_02_sfnt_off00013a3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A3B 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 6ed83809b66545bf65f6c26b838acaabf7a0e970b1b3382c417ef6b1bf085aa1