Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dde8d4e03e7d6db6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:59:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab03844005dd8b4c4469f3df906b706d SHA-1: bb92c55e16b02363df7b227d2cb5ee84a46f79d9 SHA-256: dde8d4e03e7d6db614a9ad7f7254a6b5faa87cdba72f1cce2626368a1621d430
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious payloads or phishing sites, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6c1452bd45---15194640860.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d8ca81843---69350846569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f2ca372cbb69633a6417746d114ddd4/98777030211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80d87ad4432ec0bb368fa692d650495a/lubutabetoleruzavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2cf422479---jegazawivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e599467efbd3467cb3744bcd3bcc1bd3/wukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8bd3861f60706006b5e7d0e971a3593/xolisarubekoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28faq53e8o8hgdj7gu8d8pnm4/lojisefepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/bofosenofoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33a0120b547684b822aa3b899441f7e9/15251817937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/564909e6890072a0cdcb86e7fd41b562/36900955534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/zazufelabufaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/84854361245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/wedekozevikasatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779fe2d39a0---56677119882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79908741ae---bokifinuramisosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/vuwimirusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/96976642148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9c79ce1bc---18070654484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/68744041176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/88206525713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102ce30ea132---4820404240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5017471000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/pewixatotetopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=operations+research+vk+kapoor+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_off0000bb89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB89 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 8ece83bf138bb6851ac5b5a2f916d081967eab212d99539a85aa4c07965853d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DA 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 5b5cb1de313ed997266367fa4a56a9338bd18f052c9cbe228e9936c930f771af
font_02_sfnt_off000100f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1