Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dff62dc318270edb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 18:21:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ddccaf640c93ff96304a772e4c4ff01a SHA-1: f657994a1c582a794700b938d2a9c62122ae9702 SHA-256: dff62dc318270edb6e0b91044f5ff88003e1cbe47c9b30231ffb5a327740758d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests an attempt to exploit user trust and deliver malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+abundance+in+mass+spectrometry PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ce8ee033e---wekebomudojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tq9i4a196077clds77e7tf0qma/rejiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76eaa95b43---regimivuzezata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8000e7789012be611adca382c4a0e75/89945381630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isminij750ioa75i7hcjr4000n/palirejotomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/59286354670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/nosorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/gowobibesizedixuvopeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///34383195594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/lolitasamarazidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c59d6aacef138603f52e12532a2467/nojupoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/69100236802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eunlocker.com/Images/Editor/file/5283339909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cqk0unk56ujtchjjfn4m6qgo2/namixiwamekegopobesesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/68783002832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/pugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ex2010.com/uploadfile/file/2021073013575173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/88965127412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/fuxusijolotatibiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1dfe25536---movolasavevajofora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28578b8403e00c0db0f57c6c680b708/92206941285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5257c335da---mujegovipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langfordfinancialservices.com/userfiles/files/44851741502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb59f78987---jipafoxozizopapuvotunupoz.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_off0000f40b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF40B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C1D 17908 bytes
SHA-256: e6caadab8d6898cf9290b44341df0bab0097b9fc51fb3bf1dd17e49dd7261963
font_02_sfnt_off00013aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAC 11080 bytes
SHA-256: bd8be039078c462a25c8664c7941bb1af04e08b89c8e9e08ec49b172a7d037a2