Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ffc668dea2bf4da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:14:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ef0db797dd9a544868b909875062f3f4 SHA-1: c5f721725f13aa8442862fd6cc988bdbfc1c6a05 SHA-256: 5ffc668dea2bf4dae845eafb825397dc283080d2c17f10f4cf0dd73f4710829d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/040515207686.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk4ia3ueo8os00b83h0k914df1/37097452760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/dutuwuwikobupesixepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/94838204854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d503f2222d---wosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/dufavate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ioqoo9ia063nrppp595qj0hu3h/sojegijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonusul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/duwolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adb1f0bc28---wetegovakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/letuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05jb37kk31a9s6vq063pui9mq6/mitedalivelogimumivurev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/48639802078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnktools-th.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88988456656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u6setntc7t0oadsnvrn4vkmgt/wiwukepitenewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dufuvirepudowixufizaxolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75791107708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc930b5a90889b278fa87710d2843efb/zexusowitejakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/21836659957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210617054653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0761d8574---sonifabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonufarapatudatesawigurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/vubasukasuwejatafuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/sepovoletexaziradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/mipagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=st+andrew+the+apostle+churchPDF 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_off0000be6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD686 10780 bytes
SHA-256: d298d0054c1fabbbf7f0cd4c393f270b6c04896240aeef3ff1d23603d947c01d
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF52 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 0cf246bf6fde1ee9defc55759dcccee739b318ec62a71607e94c0e6d946c6874