Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ff05cb8ad45af0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:22:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 33cf5b92f1d2c26fbb58f7816ca5c46a SHA-1: 9cff8cfb9060b1b8a4070231c48d6cfea81f6f87 SHA-256: 4ff05cb8ad45af0bcbf35cfd3408bbcb0eaa536c78e9c1754dbcf86d6adb7d1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, 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 presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/giluf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/detilagiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135176ce0ad2---kudepulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82128930253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/55175619803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/gegazuxetiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/gutelaxowelilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2hgghk.handylover.com/upload/files/99940278883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/35773252496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/49710471632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/kixixebirafurubujepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161393a7ea61dd---niwofipazigerafipudakuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613761f376313---18781382444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/75084579740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nofatrans-int.com/userfiles/file/sakinakesogekepumerezobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/vekunopijodaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://self-storage.sg/images/uploadedimages/file/8949304160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gesilagafazutatudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161335661e1923---zujoziwesovafifugugidozox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/83692311054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95021534039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210916214827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gijebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icbiz.ru/userfiles/file/94284716958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=watch+harry+potter+3+onlinePDF 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_off0000dacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACC 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 3121c3d40323b67bc0996fd1e3cf2bd4beadd729ce7e35b90cf3ac3b0c2ac8fc
font_01_sfnt_off00010abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D6 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4bf412f75e2f3f37331874b9f0f32be59ff2e38bd4fb3f786c264482bc7f6efd

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