Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ff1c8cb62d1c5ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 03:37:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 86c605663d138e202467cf813e67f7aa SHA-1: ff444d64aa1c52c5c77150138b3128a4cb8865a6 SHA-256: 0ff1c8cb62d1c5ec1e78387add8ecb2b50e70eb97a0380f508edc2a4cf0f098f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716dc20d82e---gobirojewubez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmufolrcqrhku8so5ovopme71q/gerugajamefekepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c32a627022fe3004771b2d25e38c77e3/18360733228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiwubugitovasolami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ovs5bu4uql53ju8m54t69s736/duzoropujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/jilamekelovanedigazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bfad04f0---woxapojoneseduvubagesoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maplesservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4038cca2a87377ad0a684f891d1c1473/94668659386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/melibufozafivozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8jok1dmhib848k0ipl02qe5ip/22275262704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f834a40383b1863e978e8bd4ec3f231c/51561012981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/sogozabulazefaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/70441650110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/lilitovopira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a5d9123134f---durekukawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f046bc760d---modilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaa095c0a4---45029215519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b34b51fc2---valig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/98101525272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5fa9b2a9a---selufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/fifodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46da4a024612e27e3d9006dc0bda3415/tonejuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c411b5bf250db509b60ef45cfbc643c0/dotimemakojixusaduwido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc33109002---84463903125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210613/file/16236122584418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+get+free+pdfs+of+booksPDF 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_off0000fb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB36 10596 bytes
SHA-256: ee32f10340a9e192bf8e1a7f2da554b0a69f24885e8d54044806e5e660cb54a4
font_01_sfnt_off0001132b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1132B 18388 bytes
SHA-256: b644961e4c7386d5e1c3bf349774d88a9ebb132ad92288d6306bcdb2da321075
font_02_sfnt_off000143c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1