Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ff78099172f8091…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.2 KB Created: 2021-08-22 01:07:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2fa35b503fce2f78e0298e539007ddec SHA-1: c4bec638076d03fcf577ea8385d8b6342ce5348d SHA-256: 1ff78099172f8091fc5791c4ffe735248edccebb38891a6ed817a7eb787855aa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings are sufficient.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/778514e33e090a3e6330d72ce94f4242/tezadukepilopikenamofajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba6a7ce3482---55399923412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/64455437782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942dfe2bfea---gakizivugewisozasuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/sifudakoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61713734601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/fikutosodagasitovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38m1jt08cnhradkk74fi6cpdj3/doxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top1np.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazuvuwenipikele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/79247932456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobapuviwawewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607031b851428---39015553667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d47b7d28432---vubit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsducthang.pgdbactuliem.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxupowepuberimuvawufulom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/zoxazozowetonopape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/95107558129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qkm3l5s5v1a2f8pjrdsp46110/88729855967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f4130b260c758175659a4a9a8e7574/96525600221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/timujodafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/fuxozajojosatesituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/36573486515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgma65da4d0kc79qr06dta4hdb/83781297729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c4046f159e323f8c5e3a4d7648c1375/20435746267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karpzbeldowa.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/76194666757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/50821283850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=husqvarna+yth24k48+parts+listPDF 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_off00014f60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16772 20360 bytes
SHA-256: 8f34d6e0edec38f5a9e728788ec9c837eb376cb5dd0eeb8503afa7b64726d7fa
font_02_sfnt_off00019d13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D13 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 45fee3c3b4d1ffed6a088d5b02b6a1304831a477c2a1531e8246fbabf54546d5