Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdd132ea6b3a20c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 12:46:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: dd837e6e00839a1aae14a9775bc2739a SHA-1: 79ed3436990bd51f2926033d8f96d12b633c11a9 SHA-256: fdd132ea6b3a20c2ef338f8080eef5c7befcdeed1abbb9bb1d00ea6a3a192c89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or malware downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically related to phishing. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to lure users to compromised or malicious web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=in+search+of+haydn PDF link annotation
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/66443729899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722d5234e88---voxigudujidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/24503624190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811f00dbbe3---xegugorupibogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d6ff829f6---97949034295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg23b24f2pgrphj620hdm846p0/bikinizubivofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f346e2618---nuzinuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea2f375905e10b496ea7fb704a61987/47024697247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559063988a83a20b9eb7df6078a2413a/54705079266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8emm0g0ob1ll9i298umr1305v/keworimopuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ebd008fffc0505d7040e30f9e6795d6/lurirabonawujebalokixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cunhq7v4se9tjun908lf9c4u5/sogirogopiteponuleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e44a689154---71514161638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dion54t5q49kvbaps5hu2soq7b/16661815446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3o83vl3ddgq8akf02ls8frodd/94632753185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abe742f29f3ee708b2a0026b2021ed39/86019258698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/19484110838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5dp921hmfclurn2l3o6hsbci7/99947935142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073af0f44825---497475968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/xipojetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721455a7900---lurisirivaxuzuzimimesedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a036b98ad---5940702221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a183257fb7194563d146e339ce5bc6/raranozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/kiwobibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/zovebemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/79368561144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78eb0626d8d1d2cabbb5a0bb044dbf96/80888339907.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_off0000c66d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC66D 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 9436949ff19cd31de984f41dd7a7de702465af2b0987cbce2f3d46dac99ed592
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEA 16736 bytes
SHA-256: c71052196d397fe0715f30c6362ef1831dbf52c1138686ae5bd8d1a865bd818b
font_02_sfnt_off000109b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1