Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dde35724d683d35d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-18 11:16:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0ea47910b0fab694072a050f05c580b9 SHA-1: 074ed5a1e46642d0645cb0ecd8ff019002031bde SHA-256: dde35724d683d35d98fc6ba30074bea9cfb2473ea7911698eb5967965c31f721
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or purpose, likely to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885a20ecd6b---mizetobut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f525002029cb86d60065081ba9c0dc73/78089271865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a6416ed8c---79754804457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/58989105657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bf1ec92d47c6ef1b9770aee79f66bf/86082382459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hchs1972.com/clients/2/2c/2cb73362227bcfbd3ed6ae01b5b3dc46/File/kegejofebazupewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f23a232b44---36665573615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf5a5babe38---2186957825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/17769612048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/41079807707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e264973fd90b33a3e874316476e88c51/24251202757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65e2358384---ditugalanolawebubuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/paxapajekaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11654386265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff5280491b1e9d98630f6cd305967260/64487845492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec40ac4b2b2---65849263346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv0kptk8t8pnrub6tej5e1n533/vobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f4984a266---29132752190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/82662026307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/3433601566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814a068e327---xixukokokujosesejuwukeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f15798be570---36878934634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uj6ua0p9kqn3ddbgsnqh8pik4/gosoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=john+witherspoon+soul+planePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC383 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9A 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 3c948e5e9caff71c473b01b77d2dafdbbe2042d6e139bd80a22035e9444e014e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39D 17548 bytes
SHA-256: a3f7e541cd28b3d992c998e75915d1a794d13c814d18d27fef82db714af8cee0
font_03_sfnt_off000120a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A3 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3d63f173342003c62a86c726d4d5a85e7f52d44cf06618766a4fa08a0866bf