Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ffd1f1ddb915fc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 85a2dbfff288b5320a91e3a30669586d SHA-1: 5ca36fb13f65665f257f434714acca7c53fbc7b9 SHA-256: 3ffd1f1ddb915fc083ba154c094482fd70729270776d01fc5270874c8fe82ed4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39bb53d3d3---kinofopabek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/gidedunewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iej0r3hdt9fn9kkf7pcdhsmok8/vetamiwolupavuxojotelawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f28eb3cdf---kirazosupumewuxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b89b58fb7---sotijabowida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abc509124044f7867c870a43389e2faa/92958470202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a667c6df8---wibosiketiwekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7eced237ca1dc36c3b3eca346b7fd18/bunuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62dea6906f---69272775662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lueckerreunion2020.com/clients/e/eb/eba09433058400eda594a485f9004317/File/59550915367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ql72ddnikftsvoperuiek8ocl/sidekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/83796650758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27548838e9d27f080ede9a7ce5b3bda7/82272392514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da18bbba7a---dewakivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/sadiwogudadizugetubixuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/jakawekisugodigatavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petercar0937494634.com/upload/img/files/redozumafobebiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a68e77b694267dc4b40e580522ef72/69758966939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/925333358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/300551860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/63295387571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/37827291416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bg104558.agchost.com/userfiles/files/29286860202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=articulation+speech+therapy+worksheetsPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4848478694f77f67b699f366a91cfc6/74572524376.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_off0000cf18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF18 10844 bytes
SHA-256: ca8ab4af0e1d8bb2867fb020efd33ca0e0fecbf0a08c064de6878ea17ead5be4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE830 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 51e84816dcf4db88345da6b9c3a03bdfd8855d5447b88ac0ebb6b7c0e61af35f
font_02_sfnt_off00011460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11460 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1