Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ffadae7f6aa9c23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-09 23:32:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 9d6af1be508f636c641596c7a84799a5 SHA-1: 1aebc8608be6b9f634becb7dadc4f8a779c22aea SHA-256: 5ffadae7f6aa9c2388cc578e2c4021db6263a310ccdb2d1c2679272438025ae0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/2192622312.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072060a07c00---94450280291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelokobidani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f181fd71567---babikisukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14470278150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/25416442176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9712606234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxudowosuzolutate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/rumorobibinixozidiruvugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91581e3502---zuzuveneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/26220005186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987a2d9da14---bulemasivave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/253654339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcmlbmttnguka4haffurtgjila/vokukimiwokoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ef5954f672ec4006a2e326ce3a7953/sawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/zuzonedasav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h1lfujk56nfkp44fp90lvpj16/kital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e472d10ff7efac2f141d033061d59b1/43368584535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btvkdf7aigme7dm4jou92prqm2/lewojipuxogegisawufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766eab6be6b---gupimevikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=t+mobile+4g+lte+cellspot+vs+signal+boosterPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66bfb4bc509f764eb87e822e9f003e7c/49795337630.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_off0000f557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF557 10964 bytes
SHA-256: e72d07ae4e6a176741d73478b3b0aadb9870f813a75da55a09e0dbb70e3f70d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010e96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E96 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 7583f14e001e48b5552dae90ad693b03edeec1d3a52f2a6320a275cc1e02bbe6
font_02_sfnt_off00013c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1