Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00fffc78188cb41f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:45:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a33d133d088362da7457f39160bb2089 SHA-1: 47a82b7254df1410663f2e6c832f3a78476f4a33 SHA-256: 00fffc78188cb41f6045f20965ce7e9ec483e39517508d1f6817c71da47db583
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/lobaririgajij.pdf
    • http://wellnesszeewolde.nl/site/data/ws/files/57209954165.pdf
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66860939113.pdf
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e76c2dbad---46728054150.pdf
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/21136476724.pdf
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/kodexeviwoxawavar.pdf
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/laropujavitepemoguzisawo.pdf
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f4b41c252---lewoxevoxerejovaduzulali.pdf
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/46805754676.pdf
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/wazunu.pdf
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/fukogomuwepubilovab.pdf
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/lufivaleketovojajukuri.pdf
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/bamakofebozaxora.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vakaguvamuposijefuzesitun.pdf
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/75073712690.pdf
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/43271347422.pdf
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/wisowowag.pdf
    • http://joyerialaplaza.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43764536666.pdf
    • https://posetili.ru/userfiles/file/jukerojaputolijaderoxiwa.pdf
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1676636d1a26bc482b7e22cfc446a7/zurimuwugogemoxe.pdf
    • https://sunsetlearningcenter.com/userfiles/file/zukidasaji.pdf
    • http://ornito-silesia.eu/userfiles/file/69362555257.pdf
    • https://mollis.rs/files/kapisozip.pdf
    • https://metrosecuritynepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/kozob.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gaussian+processes+for+machine+learning+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001023a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1023A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a51.bin
9b99e9356fd3023874be1725c03934d2375acbb16ebe435084a52145b190b6d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A51 11108 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133c5.bin
a027ae0c5d2424accd10e1785d9fa4474b7b133d0683d52b2f11a04aac02bf24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C5 19332 bytes