Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dddb3c720a210f49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5fd6d75b86f898ed0cfba22f81d3694b SHA-1: 7a89ac64c2fab7072136d6d184d3fa001098a6c1 SHA-256: dddb3c720a210f494132f541759edb93f458a54917e88ba3b2e70bfa13b146f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to deliver a second-stage payload or conduct phishing, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d78890931---72874758727.pdf
    • http://fpsh1980.com/clients/7/7d/7de5299bd6bdc19cdd6b275c058e9c4a/File/32365882860.pdf
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/fisozobu.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82d36b948---89114379411.pdf
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071834c5b898---perawitoputorajikifawa.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/xonivujoda.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a780517c1ee---subatelomejobajerowanezu.pdf
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/44426049416.pdf
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/wuvefa.pdf
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/sojatudejukinubufelis.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99823fbc3950d15e297b09e39370acb6/tegavasaz.pdf
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a23f111bb4bb057979fdd199bd11aea8/51009707027.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5743170a96---57200665222.pdf
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838860a91ba---32973683951.pdf
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b54e0c1d75---86962462207.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4ffc43b36---43377486343.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/88031343048.pdf
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oscebial51bpcn85dtrdu8jo6u/kazenuk.pdf
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/luwakawowiputekolenuv.pdf
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/65301022045.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b8b791a6f---89071553311.pdf
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5446130f74---18259191440.pdf
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k7milga2sg5ot2eacmk2g189v/kekenujedomurogak.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=oh+no+punctuation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018fba.bin
638b17b113ee273815c1f8b95a64b9ca24e1a8cdc7e52842d715310f6bcb7164
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18FBA 19264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001c2f9.bin
ba2aff8d6e0db36a0d84bf06b4745c65790261d2a6fd917a7f5114b88f74d03d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C2F9 10152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001d99d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D99D 16792 bytes