Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de1ddf25284a3587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1db0c61ca26c5a4d654edcd97e29228f SHA-1: 4a04cc58187031a202501b34cfd7534a34e31d7a SHA-256: de1ddf25284a35879aec52a74ec67d2df0ff7424de043870b00d645de613cacc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The presence of 'utm_term=download' suggests a lure to download potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93cbde5b70df00dd9a60897952e87d40/lolewogefamube.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be136701592be576bd665aa071d11a0f/fexuxenepapadogirofebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22002239002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a487064c89766d881e06b3d9f9ff845/tutosunadezupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce62f5c3c06---48814561189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f6e490b8b3e5d6f89622e197fa840e/32956690595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff83ca07a3---bovodamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sluganarodu.org/userfiles/files/46457336862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7def4b8c83---wekoxalijolesirubapuzoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e073adf1b49e3340a6eb6c3d1070b7dd/sunufakokarobidofapino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ead6997d9c9a899b220cc3b827b8df/fivaresuxatojipizumujigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6os5kk2d8c5f1po8eahee8jdbc/85827372295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d26ea9b92---52356391254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/60215029486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c1d8fdb95593bed590c4b131769b8f/zegixurovadinitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/7119956483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22dcc203f0---dexoxadadumigevazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3114ceaed---26587927459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75635689510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823bfc9eb77---pitowekumabotaferaxabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609273f3493a3---67237868578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmft23qltk7qvjoj1ac0voi7b0/28440981081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/xowebosanusobezalobadiwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cc9fe0ca594ca1a9eccacbdc410a6c/99992464795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+lucky+block+racePDF 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_off0000f776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF776 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 62fd5762dc947e38bdb9ef64b03dfaa0687e30eccc1e4b28c5a60bc84dfb3188
font_01_sfnt_off00010faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAA 19388 bytes
SHA-256: c6a6e1d73040041378d03cf6a22663a1bb4176eaf0d67dbe40617139dec87a73
font_02_sfnt_off000141d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1