Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddd389b47ace1b2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 04:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7f5928bba7ba98eb6f1623b7ac16ea37 SHA-1: 10fbe279422632e5a3344478d9874682bc4d71b7 SHA-256: ddd389b47ace1b2db18ff0a32657892a52e7403ebb1aa5b801027b5e4ee27599
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these external links as a distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://peperita.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/geduwugozuvigabaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipojopuvekajuwubelizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplehelppeople.net/uploads/File/wovofimasonudawulogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210903224634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52924589319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0046cf347---nilijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134332ccb8a2---kakobutuwujub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132aabca70b7---borulejopekowipejexeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomuzexenekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfect-gallery.com/userfiles/file/29805905465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srs-budapest.hu/uploads/files/zowuxifiritafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/valil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b487bafb2e---63859593015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver.jo/ckfinder/blanc/files/50456082964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishboat.hr/files/70517494612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esenkardeslerinsaat.com/resimlerfiles/zotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149ca57d54cdfe7d2ae00b2695714172/1515237878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duocvinhkim.com/userfiles/file/27414066800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/89702841657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ohm%27s+law+worksheet+regents+physics+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000f647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF647 11172 bytes
SHA-256: e6f3ad711b3c1528e7dd40134ec9cdff156b7d48bf31c7601f33e16488092103
font_01_sfnt_off0001105c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105C 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 374cd3e41bf141da870d67c5b174cf04e33fd39a774a1a5dba06d724bca7cf0e
font_02_sfnt_off00013fec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1