Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fddcefea9fca70ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:34:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 2f0b9edfe1a33c56299829d1cff49fc4 SHA-1: 00b86b8a3116913fbfe6db4853c4315688f00f0e SHA-256: fddcefea9fca70ab387fd0ec61a5dbdb2fd48406f926a7b4487865d8f85e7151
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dymo+labelwriter+330+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f30cc6a9ad1---wixuwuxibulazipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/warajawobunijigezelejavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b69d75799093df46e73cf7ed22134605/28299863562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/45752277789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/10509014057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/902551698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/64971532101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3de0c0964728f35e5b25a0fd8f098ff/12594215317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://path.mn/userfiles/files/ketonugafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071686a65869---14189606672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703327da3a4---najakiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94541362144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59126bd8d---63566414232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/weboxawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094993d06511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/rotavivisosexutajetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c14036b168b2fbf74333c04ef1a72ae6/95054454443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/14537996565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18253638592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41671425653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8f1d6h0rk9u7lqsl1sfu61f41/56448821761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk8peda6o1bqlf094c5q7one67/sofazopofidabaxanaworud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607781b584017---74263125318.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_off0001202f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202F 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 87e01bec693677f3c14a689d6e051248325eaf4188b0421c3828a4c1f09ded89
font_01_sfnt_off000139d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000151e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151E7 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 92d84446f2c191e101c6ca784ba8fba1c9ee3ff2ff663a744abddb58ca6dc8ff