Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ff460a3bc428e13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 171bfb4a132ef42ef38af94bd8213b04 SHA-1: 886e952d69727d641ca150e5f12f20f7d945eea5 SHA-256: 0ff460a3bc428e13ee0476440ea580de0cf73802e784456ae369e6f1ac612a81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/44179959132.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4e39df075879d2d496b87756d51d1c/59751946376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/gijuniditek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/gidusogazosudojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089fb8ecbfc7---deludixuzogidopopoziselip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/99449198787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca785bd764---vakevokuwisino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guss-ex.de/uploads/fck/file/55607642919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5fdac1451c21c4b9640c965c871f0c2/dinorabesuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5863e8d71a1ef5c19696e4ac93a4f007/pigipewipivofeduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d92d112ffafee856894c31a4967bc7d/67227680768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m26vlkqakc8uda3a5v68nvjsb/46308898431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinijewelry.com/userfiles/file/68717522422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/91799000255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbb298d6a2---14135801127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f182db7ce---sipadebasadugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/vorovufosusubidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojovicsirogojno.com//files/vevomewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/welajijumebawabubejibulel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/lefavabozeretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f787cd39170e7e2e20bf7102f48a1a7/19146314663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705664505d4---tuwugarupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantanalmsnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10297100268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=blockchain+blueprint+for+a+new+economy+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F5 18768 bytes
SHA-256: 1bbce115b0eac37f255826c6f9ce3232577617c7b3eecbce13e35ce5d3e28304
font_01_sfnt_off0001137d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137D 11304 bytes
SHA-256: e82390133139c23400cfd8f1286c913077ec23700139490ed0331ac3b388386c
font_02_sfnt_off00012dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1