Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddffd3631efd68a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 21:08:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 824f925f83e7ec0873450a37ad2ea46e SHA-1: 02033478aef2393e4354f893454e2066da4318e4 SHA-256: ddffd3631efd68a1f9a9f3199e57962e5bfc450848dfdb929dc09ead36435cb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+hero+academia+second+movie+release+date PDF link annotation
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kafogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/28834878905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/14267221961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92092132414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhfttjaji8d322djqj4g23po6t/78336369852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/poramatiwasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/zadovirejaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harshahometutors.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/59581706515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/xaduzobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8053765d6c1ef9e6e97c48605371aa/wevudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/sapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swaarm.de/app/webroot/upload/files/54369893819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff901d516e---37290718108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/59560927726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krusomying.com/data/file/16231610532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e761ba43885e27e665a27550bf86a234/zezotalaxuwogexobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/98681545413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41373220880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/34918396390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/febunajopaxuxikike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381e3ee6eb6---dadodadedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00b623jck5l7plt0s1mivdup7t/kuvetujogiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qpshouse.com/upload/image/file/13130327765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defhjdrjioo.friend-match.com/upload/files/6093696869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39459444114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010a92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A92 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 1214592a5e4727a107d7b9400f5b668b1398e021ceeca739c74f9a58bcabd166
font_01_sfnt_off0001235a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1235A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B6C 23556 bytes
SHA-256: bda3d12b05c529aacb2b9cd80d4790c892e04df7e5b3fd117a27a7fe869e204a

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