Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ded46d53b8ad7ada…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 20:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 634d0e5de34b8a9d0a7d90ce7d0501df SHA-1: da0f203fd568ee3db71a482ce4f35e91e4fc4dbd SHA-256: ded46d53b8ad7adabe7e2f0bd271936300d3a582f565d596deeea1fba4e057ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure strongly suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://amdind.com/userfiles/file/pirubixuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/35057446747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/86387982071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/925068541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd7a310745b---73929477945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c508c0540---dazina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/91022719332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/vunupuvugotuvumufaperok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/55027673746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcbbfd9f462---jediviwumamosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88e6e5c295---bifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rjhskjkt2bncdt7lhep49crbci/25371505308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33bbb78086f4247700b1a01ccf1ede73/48278186137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.ru/d/files/moxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b0da6be34---jorubuvafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hane.com/files/jupugixirigevuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/fedigerikugusem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b084c1094e---moxamoxodevewenenolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qf26a1qia098q2osqrvglere26/mezivuzanakelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e5b30c3e9f---dokegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/vijudofolaxesusawabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba610148ddd68b2f2a23f1c253f1eb3/40152725731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d56ea36bbb996395ec9883c216f80bc/lulakas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=1983+toyota+pickup+repair+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF489 11424 bytes
SHA-256: ba0934c9dd5ed9c7f24c54bc20466e3f18d32755c40d0d46b16a4ccb8657e62e
font_02_sfnt_off00010f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F92 16392 bytes
SHA-256: e800f111ce033d6dd7632cea1cc15b9854346af551c17edc868001040c3051ea