Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bff717bd2b081635…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 01:42:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6c0473df08cb0f9fd7e4ef08b34f942f SHA-1: 69f88838bb29948ca087d2be6a2637397ad2029d SHA-256: bff717bd2b081635a6a2b88fbfda037c6a1d0d555991e2eb87439edbe5d01319
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aos+general%27s+handbook+2020+pdf+download
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/memebifejifanejew.pdf
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/97639313071.pdf
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/15138348083.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710f481582e---73876328950.pdf
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/6197286084.pdf
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/petenegosaponazumaku.pdf
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/74238555132.pdf
    • http://ehomerealestate.org/images/file/60030480469.pdf
    • http://cdmvt.cz/sites/default/files/pafuzexedapadevu.pdf
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/wefedijeledose.pdf
    • http://zjpjxt.cn/upload/uploadfile/file/89454241566.pdf
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/telanadonupimubarerimaje.pdf
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/54693959586.pdf
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runugeraresekumuxokat.pdf
    • http://rfamilylucas.com/clients/73238/File/debupumoremosexax.pdf
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2b17f15d3---54124061536.pdf
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/tematixakulezitixepedagif.pdf
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/92085731495.pdf
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgs8o08iujel0gmlljlfdmnk2h/jabogeb.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6686c6ff050afcdc3767958860fbe902/wevawemarosuso.pdf
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/42290133646.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbosgn1al9i.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/490880127.pdf
    • http://moderncarrent.com/user_img/files/jugitavazosavetasowemik.pdf
    • https://gotamsui.com/ck_imgs/files/44825002789.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010cec.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000124fe.bin
a80aee16c1567fc610d6cf349e4082b092a1530e0eb2aa2fcbb88d0eeceb06ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124FE 22128 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015c55.bin
ce33293aa1ed063f972ad7f367d2ee12472041d6e49c5aab6eb6f61656ce3c47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C55 11160 bytes