Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4ff986c228bddf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 09:22:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: ae056b4fece4b874b1ca59f78cf8188b SHA-1: 3d473dcdbc977bc45c0899124794cc0ebeae7591 SHA-256: f4ff986c228bddf7f9884741743618b7e580a6d7c457fc740660379cbe90b55f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa7e463ed8---parewamasolobuneviwotumaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe6feda722---88519191626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8180544a96---vurujunonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e3354f370---24742900014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7f7f337f7181d76dd445e06aeae9a1b/25207397016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1c824d6bf---vegajedimusisivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/72235761415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c15de733c---73863863976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/vibubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/92025281225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/patawafivilugiruwifano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/bixaluribupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7cml8g3rn78vftkt3qm98nf70/nonawokofexisozopatosajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c399d9213f2580c058d760adde3f803c/84288380563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/16429725892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e18360f9f---92596770735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3292d18d81b70e694ea98e3488a048f/xojugomavopaxoxusifono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/71176659105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4726892f033ed5dc471291216b087466/24341445403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710b865daaf---pefezanukajitumusumidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/35810279314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/wisabogetavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210524161314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://er-trans.com/img/produkty/files/xutodeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/gowedozezakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/87585958382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+social+media+is+most+popular+with+college+studentsPDF 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_off0000fecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000116e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E4 11140 bytes
SHA-256: ee8990792b144da7fc82624c0cd8a5b19b5398c463ad6f88373d3dde2ea3e003
font_02_sfnt_off0001308f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308F 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 81fb00158c60e07fe9e80d98937eac8a78238cb35fe4a0ec17085cf73dd469d4