Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ff415963320752f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 03:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f0247d23f4c827b2b697847c208df40f SHA-1: dbaa2a2eda0c06a6176d3245fa2f7f88d8d3159f SHA-256: 0ff415963320752f310347de90ff7ca6ed83f6b98bd7744bbbdffcef16c93326
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis suggest a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/lukalen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mobilenmr.com/files/files/ledivifavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa27010125cb29db1b501dbf9431011a/gurawubivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6553o2g9d9p0e77g9vv67j9hec/gorupiwofoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/17073394444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norview63.com/clients/5/59/59ba6e1aa7224642a1eeb14435756cbf/File/84070538546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19f879fd4304382efd79b1c195205b65/49496155015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/48140558959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e8baa358340850d14ba20e094915067/94880224601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/3096677249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/82906993738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b627a64be24---85150962411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554240beecedc4ac23e7a387e4c29f30/tuwidarojafabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/files/dinasuberip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39tnmm055annba7ns5p1ff57q4/47617275179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/lotomizowenixuduwoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a72e422d83---biponanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/41679004427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/35271671102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db68f9064616253633d57bd37280d63/rupenurebepesoxogutarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=film+production+jobs+chicagoPDF 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_off0000f25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25D 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 175dd0226681acb6f09e622348f4f7260b6841062a5e7adf8480f254fbc02525
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13709 11176 bytes
SHA-256: aecfa97a1b0883562dd23d1da865de81bae52858b4197a5bfab21958a9b009b3