Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dff54f68dc77c260…

MALICIOUS

PDF

155.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:01:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fb422242cb4d6cc864b5a37afe706cf3 SHA-1: 45971c66559e88bf4b3835c793da10894cc3a117 SHA-256: dff54f68dc77c260a16cc993b8227a8b8242e5512dfaf1dad6f3a046b3c8acc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9461

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=conducting+a+survey+to+gather+information+is PDF link annotation
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5j6c95m7roq3eog8ffb3rkpa6/36482074856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/18219041400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dssh7m9le8cufnk10n93u7qsrl/85206886054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0690951a8cf57f3b4c1b8e84576d5a/filaranitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58030187269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/leperajalusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125808f3de88---ruboleropufilisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72718383534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/vibosinugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79f7b8f7c5f0eda026acc1b48d54bb7/35616643939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autopsrus.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karitiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521cf9d8521b1152a3afc8deb4d674cd/68168480720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafefexar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab1a45fd8b---46345730149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc81042bad---bekosafagonodimoloviwofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ced2c71cee---bagogosazaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607375ed90b09---xaxiguwusiluvenapibitigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2999dda6992a2a5b10e9b97bb4cb3746/46793494286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/bawilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozgu-yapi.com/firma/files/febudirimolifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610319bb49145---pokevatalamufujetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f7015ec558249075775230cfe71272b/fisoluxigakikisenajelafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e188c45bd3a85ebb889d408541f090f/6489930279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea04bc333e00bf6370f731ae7b88368e/poluwibuvulofi.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_off0001fe9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FE9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000216af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x216AF 18096 bytes
SHA-256: f7fe10618e433086c9eb7d04914a1073293852109974075d6119af8bc403d8df
font_02_sfnt_off0002452c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2452C 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 6a885b9cb78057a11d91fb1ae5be17ba62b49d9c69201444f2138b9ec1bd74fb

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