Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddf0303fe3e33e89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0379eb623a2f0bb18fd8a0d5bf4d50df SHA-1: e0db81fa0e3626dbb3d9c98dfaee29bfe9363505 SHA-256: ddf0303fe3e33e898ad73673140c21a7b210829e5be28fd23690473349107b7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads, a common tactic for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083be211f8e4---pulafikisu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/zufugupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.assofmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bomodaloruxupovopaluwobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/sodibulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njd1mr0s2fs3a4mpar78p3gfc1/xijodasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/sexobibabawazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pendekaremas.com/contents//files/sunugerumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/26071666134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210728124508441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/48360237110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/93589114159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/59753716772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dedf1cb525e12a32703c84757a1ef6e2/buwibifuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwosajunegugukoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/viguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40830140169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/valadivejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/gagexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b823d619e80---11412627912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aede44877146d008e34dc405de4c7f05/luvalufipatifidaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/biwosefovoludirosekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/71332631463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfd0ba28cd91beb0a94aeaea23359cff/69835886171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c941219a367c3c9db86630ef6f82ebbf/61969174051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81477475071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6iufv6r6jud5glq0paou9i5a/32350512350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/52381429156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=stryer+biochemistry+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB904 11392 bytes
SHA-256: ac7ce89767201d1a45da0c0f0c9194a1ce01e215e5380ea82bf55f0efcbf56e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d38a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38A 15900 bytes
SHA-256: f63f652afad5116e7d02ffd4ab3a98d22db7c3bcd217e51825848f27db6b34cb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1