Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dddf06bfe90f3674…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c52a007aabc0de19be3d64076f789989 SHA-1: 37f81e5b613a4a6e0f73912261315f0f2b1c5389 SHA-256: dddf06bfe90f3674fbf5bec9851b7d975d3cb62220dca971a8bfc3fb71ef2fe1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting it's used to distribute or host malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://afmiletisim.com/resimler/files/8358245183.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160c0833ed1a0a---56608092629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c7ac57636763ff2d5b3e05be47ff597/wakoxabilutafepegifedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abe15c6cf3db869a14dc6efd8b77560b/66585555203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/muwewijixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/867b3a27643c35b6da875ea96affecd7/62046556399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5ce8d4a77---fuxuzuvusuzugidapose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078197c073ca---94413661735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bixexulakikojekabakitirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifebeachvilla.com/uploads/image/files/71770080646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/liturepatavukosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davaguxodopevotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/1166764902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/tatajazavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/96887498197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4d009b7ff---12932210438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bee49e82d---kenofeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/gamogalexagifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d35959d251---57784590862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/81476710474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba2616c9a---fipiwiwotelebimilawaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/56881256841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kagogutobukewavorokebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ukraine+president+transcript+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_off0000dac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D9 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 18df5dc7882aa8bda01ca80f304fd2ab32b2d0b75ff09bbe57b41d4954395d90
font_02_sfnt_off00010aff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFF 18680 bytes
SHA-256: ce56c379aeaa05d0ec6ef657d679977dabe33934b535a6ac95f9be4f880fd0ad