Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddf0a6c2e8894964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:38:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d2daf2800cd727bcca7e2b89b6903d96 SHA-1: 08e605fc0cb9f6cfa95f906d2291886cfb04effd SHA-256: ddf0a6c2e88949643a0e1eb7121d2f4a863c49ff499734a259c76b6a633948bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites, in turn, host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage redirection or phishing scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fca52e53d1---3683640508.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4ovtfirpm65dcv9l69met46f4/1920149706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fbe94af47e3211c190b99a9ea485d80/vobanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/diwibepisapavilizagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/wunubunanulosadonusetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccba5bdfd30b74ed0bc057d4d4a7f0ef/88406454042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjsnh3k9jpf1tfintpq3jk9nm4/dadewavogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/tojasagoguvemomanezet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/35044937259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/60431089620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/kerakopuxivinolakefiworif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/gewekuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cc1b925f8---rizixodusaxibenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de0ab07a406846f2308543633ffb473/27896741415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bb50afa8f---42599138083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63655048332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aed312289f---17151528061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/44628130481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/repalujajokavulokupomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/dasafitusevejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f1426b126---kagikixelaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/70218897765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611468e601365---nedesevozeraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f1c41c219---49882982119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cz-synergy.cz/data/file/ganagoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=linux+split+pdf+pagesPDF 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_off0000b633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB633 10612 bytes
SHA-256: e750b9a0b5db53326d25c84cf0269584b31043b8cb8d662f9c845a8c629146a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE55 15352 bytes
SHA-256: 75931c614fcca72a20d9f6959d462df344edc955b17a3e00c2e44a69db26039e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1