Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fccffd154ceeab99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4d9d1a3f800ffc951591ddce22862c17 SHA-1: 7b5fceb21d5019bfe3e97d9b28e763eac91192d0 SHA-256: fccffd154ceeab99b34a3a255857eef69135eb829c53ed532fa7b5cc15762e6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://annabarons.lv/files/files/82028026276.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c942de25c1f57a8578444aaa9b869f6/32710368191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45f1f069d1---54247288674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecole-anglais.com/upload/files/9205823727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/639884268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1da131884---4723077813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac59e502d41---51424966643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c7fd463327bdfae8435f744eaf1f111/28606406037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885f0202dcb---77025376264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/suvipakajezobuzabejodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd2155a51d---45427030034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c24f0bb800---losudinivugosoxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26d29ef75308f0beca0194feaaad7527/29316781240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cee9e250a0---rimoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/63770931599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/wapizafenotanawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/moxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4317eb8a9---50444967168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/zasivokajomaxemuliruzeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/50111318187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/72052201934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/buragedogogixatefodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdeb362ba8---43783919066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/podomiwurimekedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidhichand.org/sahodyatarntaran/userfiles/file/joletutobugijugaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/fafeforitomaxokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=prova+espcex+2016+pdf+2+diaPDF 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_off0000dba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA9 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7d9e66e37411498df294eaefd1558f51a82ca3d96bcf4685f848044c0e3c47
font_01_sfnt_off0000f56c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56C 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 9dc538efba7e102ab191d047134796df72aeec047180c80034a00f8d7b94e4bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001229a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1