Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddeee643d8801462…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 372bc64d449e20d8d2bd05011e2bde93 SHA-1: b1a2ae840e70ec467d18f323a1f6e7a2a8592988 SHA-256: ddeee643d8801462d2e31a05624424565ea55f7d4823739485654054b9752597
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary goal appears to be phishing or SEO manipulation through a deceptive link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://quangphong.vn/uploads/image/files/nadigifogagu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sportgalaktik.sk/userfiles/file/vivafobogekepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad5d60518ad---piwalimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/84272939467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b53b7d85a5392cc9dc89078691b30b32/gorabafesemelobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qbuy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/nabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3dac6db0a5---39242079410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iis3gm2vjtoekjgohtvsjl50l4/39620445924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/4304103020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/17734967192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/povesewexanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arserwood.com/js/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php/upfiles/file/210618125309376433uhd35g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaonoithatgiahung.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/68578779948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a09606caa924c41919e9be8f052257b2/zoganosiradenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f14512914f335162294c63e6c7b224/93121261236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da4a4ad384b---logorozinadumago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/lerogowetiborori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a0a641cf4cb095a5c5b19c710885e0/penisiveruxovopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c851d06499b---wokitulabawotarazakozibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106241638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cac484a4e01c0b4c3e896fb24701ea9/zapovubofab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/23550254051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://passaicvalleyclassof1957.com/clients/44362/File/50622068849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/78410081266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=hunter+sprinkler+system+manual+xcorePDF 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_off0000e5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DE 17100 bytes
SHA-256: b9452ebeebdbeca9d9e32fe9dc4a4adc4bd41dd9396247e86cbe1c0e3b337bfe
font_01_sfnt_off0001124c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A63 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 62c3024dc6c7fcb1a2e488527ae4c2f61abd528bf2656484c469daf878bf2917