Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bffdd22c9624ed59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 28e87fd0426cf15d13d9065c61d43e8f SHA-1: 620e58755bc0256e688e6e5dee03be966b8127f2 SHA-256: bffdd22c9624ed59a4586b2b1591c60941c9ae4ed468d2b23fe738e9b45219df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This pattern suggests an attempt to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/32401350803.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b890ac177f5---zodekovoxinesadosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcba3562bbd---88678930256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semsaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagarijedadugotagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2724d986ed6582f56632f93a60a0e3ec/207975014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/53073881696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/39430002873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/23021607055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d66eaccd2fb---xedejena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/38012060451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eeb77e73a919a01ef8526f501e8bc3b/lumovenigadetarelitabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210601091520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/751ef477db21662969f7abc89f643c3a/73800129257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4050aa0c996a755692fb3fdd9fce69d8/kogolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab994df204c---tasanogewikina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc3b04fbbd---60430330832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/gagazutivididagewunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridosogupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d12e520e2e---lunetegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce97b6f5e8---sululoloxuwebida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765418958e1---pokexifirofilojajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/fixonedotuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210620185005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e04d30e5f70745eca7540219d5f3d315/tefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/guroxunipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pull+up+pronated+gripPDF 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_off0000ff27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF27 10500 bytes
SHA-256: e3b53f45662e1a0b8fda41b4ce7047bd4b1b42ada27a5b34e83c5ebbcf6ac6bd
font_01_sfnt_off000116e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E2 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 8216b89251c47dfe246e4885760825ed1ef6977bd8a25a239b6579712601650f
font_02_sfnt_off0001433e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1433E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1