Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddf575a0da4c764b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 19:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 721639ea7213ce107725e4782fcca7be SHA-1: 43eabeb2c88ef11974a70388793896e4d63a49e4 SHA-256: ddf575a0da4c764b05d074bc156ed65e4cd94f6e91e606275cfa06dac03a6d57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating phishing and trojan behavior. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and link farm structures strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=autoboyography+read+online
    • https://mobilaide.com/upload/editor/file/vetizudikomov.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145252f9ea0a---56786283923.pdf
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/614c9446d033f.pdf
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109242016066612.pdf
    • http://eskuvotoszkanaban.hu/editor_up/68569797747.pdf
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/45838773401.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d143e4cda4bda2004f4e1e47afb7652d/bogokejimodijupajoze.pdf
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/69282477641.pdf
    • https://bluza-shop.ru/content/File/gexunozi.pdf
    • https://cqhuaan.myhost360.cn/upload/files/09-20-14-11-18-33.pdf
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74245855804.pdf
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/dabovevedu.pdf
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/95072764257.pdf
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/temisakumedisi.pdf
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwosepevixeredaju.pdf
    • http://language-coach.pl/uploads/files/mavavovivupuligepulexupu.pdf
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65ee8f41b4eef97e78f32512a7eacd78/46476133839.pdf
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/46212059770.pdf
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/68271352634.pdf
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/6912825543.pdf
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/newejebibebirupidusozej.pdf
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27830679629.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346aa5e5109---23207055383.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000af98.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF98 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c7af.bin
e4d4251ce4ec6f53cbc2dd8aac059973f565d8a5ad071b7cbd7e707ba3224fe1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AF 10840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e02c.bin
9d3bf591f9765266386e25d429a7e10c226ad63d4ec389d3eb60e81c6222b6be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02C 15348 bytes