Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff073775b3de4b6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 22:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 71ad681914256fe05b64c1f88572c4a3 SHA-1: 3a3fdb8cad1e4ed6854c455868bc06bf1c9e617b SHA-256: ff073775b3de4b6ae4f65a3814ec6a8ae97c5fe5058a263ab47cc0c5bfe80750
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, appears to be a lure related to a 'European training center notice'. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign aiming to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=centre+europ%25C3%25A9en+de+formation+avis+salari%25C3%25A9s PDF link annotation
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935cb268bb45aa7453d068d01b863db2/52765573366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e96c11f647---vajiwedogapikezilovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3fa3c0c63be662d8fe176b1f9c33ef/miboledeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef47a76cd2---suzuzuvobupuserezesaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908fa956b51---37926493674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0eb42307e---32075815537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/35319173555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442rdcmiuum9kgrnldg8nmhdb7/sofedugolutubopejonele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gtlg7utm80edvsbes7hcqf3b6e/tidujolorixidubewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f47657db3---34597211566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771e303eae9---vimufafafejobaroxifoteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/xopibufuneguzogusigodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/912c10b95f7d745e2bb71f25e50e1774/guvofibesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/xuwakenefibijebedujisatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0ff2536a1210ed9b51a5ffb1d24b97c/44700568212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE423 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8c210abb24fb26e7e60368b4b7bc8d6c2ef5016e7ed670ddffddb8ccf53632
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CA 12232 bytes
SHA-256: 66ca266f4efee84794c88dcdd59ba50d05633120823d94a4a51ed648440715f5