Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ff9b65f7153d8fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:09:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9a9ddcf353e832588c549d88fbf2a3a9 SHA-1: dc8d4e0e0bc48c7504bb36ed25b4eb04b1a83bfd SHA-256: 1ff9b65f7153d8fa42e0e1ead775baf73fcee77dc9eb1bbae9cbab2bc4af1c12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, disguised as search results for academic papers. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=macroeconomics+in+context+3rd+edition+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/3167122445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b58f02990---sugimogupewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.cz/res/file/pomemuwosolusebote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/36578812863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43da0613f1---jisozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b785b2d4a48---93013998436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926e2247056---59477754850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fff95cdc9---wozuvigawexexerodenake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccd0773d1da---75877813464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/62352318479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/232db81817a3367a533585baf25bb8b3/97875771481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ad1977fb4b18d8c422a011da5f2b12/91346951739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078097daa62d---vejutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608878abcc5a7---99889345798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83fad067bb---14807029622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc7a363088663dd42b60d26801bdf438/zokerunexuziguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/lezapaxupipibimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokusevudofepamazunuzaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9e2eb678e1f8759066545140d89c8fc/wipipojivuvatatupakivelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e8io0uj0r5svqgsbuh6mu2a0h/zalavulunoxafubixuwupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d35f22a47---41774980468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/dewetafoleromimoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/kesatarezosunidimitezalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/beloruzarikudila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/zerukunovufamenezatenid.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_off000100e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E9 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 6aed6fcb9842fbf4c7fc11477f5b01049f50abf2c21f21e206027fbcba1ae498
font_01_sfnt_off00012dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC9 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 8614a29b9d5335f10e46a96aefd0a2b11e7e0fe7a414ff5a3178aa619a004ec6
font_02_sfnt_off0001476e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1476E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1