Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dde0f3b7ed2eafed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:30:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 67ac269936838c006571f31c62fdaa18 SHA-1: c170e83543e30716d62777975a4bb20b7e12ab93 SHA-256: dde0f3b7ed2eafed1a05b7ca2849aeef4bc2e49d23563c26d293df3c0a74b80f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the phishing and potential malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+word+study+concordance+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/nirenilebawenurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilbasipromosyonu.com/userfiles/file/bebuzadonexuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f61de39340---69780811953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwindijk.nl/home/edijk/domains/edwindijk.nl/public_html/uploads/file/94062665228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905015543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/raluzitezasobutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161373dace963f---nudoxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c920e78ce---57166521556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/pewazipegufojovoduxafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54050570926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/tufefigiwugaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamayeshniroo.com/shop/file/15588311057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/zevotovekel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2729705377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runojumapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/mamunujazigeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rescue119.org/userfiles/file/damasidejojefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/jevipigataguzorapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/68729834332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog/file/28129149793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/47264262668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fptica.ru/images/file/julipuxowaveviga.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000caed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAED 15940 bytes
SHA-256: faa9393f37f7479f1aa746ac0c63bc20d657928583e54ba194a71009388bc1cc
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FA 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 46182392c22e38f5a1a126cf1d1c863da577120828a66a69f01542dad1e64593