Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddd7dc6db99ec7bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 01:36:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fdc17631d1cbb3bf121291c99ad21ba9 SHA-1: 10fa982f57ec5e4ee9650a08b1101ced343974bb SHA-256: ddd7dc6db99ec7bf9d0e771a750420b7cea57d11cf251607af9730216629f689
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a common tactic to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kiralik+ask+60+english+subtitles PDF link annotation
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/rikelasovexuzapavabezimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8k5lk6vjcfbcb91nk5pm09ufa/tidesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca8c755560---25675867953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd51662e15---rowobaluvetejunaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffba0a7202---81503091107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/77574982859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4e1cc3a80b3c8ca911d4b0eabe29e25/napizuvasesigenano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ce7022a8459f40b5e6d280b32b4fe0/magasepasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa7bb8e157---85191823695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960d370931d---rixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89e3e744a8510b885addbc16de21981/27294808637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980d9d3678b---66154893046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e7c381b8824b06d3a156bbd7b60df52/96722089316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467ed0df4dcc743944f056a8b2f39225/65898238770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0db40b0b4f---refumavubupaxexefugadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/74535426008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf27e9702e---jixebisusoxegubinafubuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000d406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD406 5416 bytes
SHA-256: d0debaffe72d47549758922f7337ce59a741b34493f1a8e4c9a9822e59f01315
font_01_sfnt_off0000e65b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65B 7104 bytes
SHA-256: ff62c6c80daaed069383c007adca3ceda361a9decbbd21d78803d1aacff44bd1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE32 12356 bytes
SHA-256: bc5a992ccc0e7a4f2c36659cb36a6b53da6c6bb3ebace431b9946f7e2926c943
font_03_sfnt_off0001263e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263E 16384 bytes
SHA-256: dd51a87aadf893895ed1cdcb65797f7705f89c2fb9356558a5dd5326f214ddca