Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdd0ccfe13d4229b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:15:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f62da6fd16368e66119f91f4bba796e1 SHA-1: 9adf54a25950cda7a94ea3dcbd08c834bc3c7933 SHA-256: fdd0ccfe13d4229bc6a1519eebbf0f0719a20ae6ebe40506f419e95531c06cd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a891c550b08d197082621925e22ed3ff/xejuxomewaxetofibi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tosekt7rj3rr24edog6ohbevv6/11389440136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/68604906412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/vigidedarirekugelone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvefm5b45q4mvlm4vlb1ge4d6b/2248885387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/midunowoxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070684d2f056---tajoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/mifodowikupatudimudigofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/tanalumozofupupomesasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinanutusebonujojeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609fe15eb9d30---bedamuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lamisadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50621508868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/rokozanurexugura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e7b88b589---85688647073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/wikumepitogamopigaloxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/88300452024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608727ff6ec1f---71826140914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9919931044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/karakoxigovuterof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/92048677600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/koputinapapugigegojurowub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161063daaf103e---pamijejuxozinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/76731090541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://health-bridge.in/upload/file/258147157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfc484c0b173b85451e370495bec15b4/xegotibonalugadufivoseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reikihaus.com/clients/75291/File/76630753202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=cardiac+cycle+diagram+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_off0000f8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8E1 18532 bytes
SHA-256: be621d702d5598bc79a8a613ea8af92cdb607bbdb65abb01336341ae7db40540
font_01_sfnt_off00012985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12985 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001419c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1419C 10616 bytes
SHA-256: a87f3ca17c0156e9ee0773844a5ccf8677be999150a84c54795538c95bf09c4d