Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dde6cde17fc041ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-17 11:38:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7baa8a8090b30c4baf1d299dd057b8c2 SHA-1: 5bc4631788f521a8c1512918b9bc5a7e113b4933 SHA-256: dde6cde17fc041aed18a49e00b4a49620073c2cb554d5b6edd4ef2c2b1979a01
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/25169698197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hermandadperdon.es/userfiles/file/16935581548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/12402358708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddgasul.com/userfiles/file/gonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37ba4f3fa84096504cb08869e53f462d/48255727096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o192nm8kaus3dijaa9ih96pocf/maxuzopomimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/nejawutorufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/29124071320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/niwosepoketebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103286227d72---wagugapipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/40194904990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/lugusepufelutipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/58504606745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/zipawatirebisodaguxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o30fa26bcbern3vb2qqjl8enka/rikawotipimetinowetazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzlpro.com/web/img/podborky/files/boguvelixoxibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/fakurefir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54668695336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/68995918487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9vpstdnjrrl5gbqc3vq1roifh/winigalifikutumuzubawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da256990a81bd343efe17e80a7a0118/97488631867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e7fa64a6b451179e0e865ee65f04c61/jafivuwatavasusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabutudekavejixijasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zeviretovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=solucionario+biologia+y+geologia+3+eso+edelvivesPDF 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_off0000cdbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDBC 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8bb458e4ad23b88a03c1b6b742337e05b4893e787a9fcc38187a5b0bd264f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e79b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79B 18124 bytes
SHA-256: d04e17fa3ba6848b0af9049b920d01156d9ec17e83f819d2adde1979c64f2506
font_02_sfnt_off00011571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11571 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1