Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ff2780fe0370f5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0fa7eb5f5a8d70af427b1ff12dcb5f8d SHA-1: 90ff820a18d1526ac77fc40df56ab23b953154c9 SHA-256: 1ff2780fe0370f5ef071a66122384b6398882228791a8bc06dd5c088f4793dba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URI links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=david+house+of+cards PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec68b5f163---64432333765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628134444159097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/72485883765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/foxavapisuwunubovasirosop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/dekamavoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/nosojojaloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/kigezitixabava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/65258575080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68csm62pmnan7mnm5ps2lg9gtf/xonogefotadatuwese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/63941282262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d391f58aad4036934f829741066eea9/debutexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l80qkmc8tnn5idvmf710d2q60c/36277225429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62565017771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5aa18e9dde272d1d4bec5cd7d7a718f/24475621322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5f4d936bd---wadepezevutujanokabatogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2d3dd71fc---powasefatugesugonozona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2302be8b2e---rasuxujere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/riramuwerixexosakegoxiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a929d6f978---mizewavuveweberuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0d83944b17---selifepoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/leluzuvimavijefaranoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tewipefepobufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945b19eb638---tafizozobikubilaseled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd53gl4fnj609l8n7kh35e0pl5/mefegulopilitaguwomajusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/10993991654.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_off0000f7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D6 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 577756a934206e27bb5af8137ef905663770dede7917be56fee91a0a50be4eb1
font_01_sfnt_off0001253e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D55 10492 bytes
SHA-256: d24aee3ae7c2f6ba53689607a628c0139e1d0c7ef86d49d5bf995d5bd884eeda