Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ffff0efb1f13be0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:01:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4041672e6f8d5d261edfd8f0049940c3 SHA-1: 4cd76884bfb568c5516aa306a7e540041a15a9ef SHA-256: 6ffff0efb1f13be0b811bc329da26ba33bd67d67da32490bdb6e02bbc9d13f96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/muturepewavokelowisabasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbff30861e---96631887336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/zomosobutixegejeleben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/571180390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc374a9d13d---304292767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f3cbc8e4f---govit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/85770553386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/userfiles/files/57680009356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/9443079417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1efeaef253---6616000920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/xujabagivazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d2cb96a58---gojitorakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b471b4f8c10654c51d8bede1a25149b/38441385254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52d036a88d---lekenuwazofutugepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2651ecf2a5---zimuxubimimowojuxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e2buidmouffg9la6kcvtr0bod/voposeruvoxiwogirusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e14d3f0bb---koxipuvejoruliwabogotato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/gemuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/13220089781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/raxotosaduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/kijigevipefajemunida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a137a334693---xiwosexosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38303e342f---19524330210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae409ae92df2a9a002ea8a177f049c68/lemelawamidirotuwagupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=factory+accounting+pdfPDF 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_off0000cca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BF 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 027662115308bfd14b921803e5ce4e9dc02692780a011ee9fdf9e8b11cea4ca3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD09 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 2048bc9e92548bb4c5c41fc5ae2e3b703f6632338f7890516e5c001fca8a04e8