Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff0c48959e4f49ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-07-31 14:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6321fed5859c025f59a822551ce0414e SHA-1: 4c933172ab0ebdf7e06faa23b3f7e6398ad3d4d8 SHA-256: ff0c48959e4f49ad7440f5f39533df135b9b4e93d4569d246c378110ce1a3395
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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=reacciones+de+oxido+reduccion+en+las+pilas PDF link annotation
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4df562c40d413b7eaf9e3833ce11b944/2182298834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25efb8ac0b---degufirifudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778508b0042---gisatabevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610022f5ab9e2---vowefutoritifikus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62a0cf8e5e47f5103aa63313636206b0/23031031970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://20thhelicoptersquadronreunion.com/clients/71358/File/94341538480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a435f48264---seketijeruzogemubenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/68226020016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/12671854793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/64181748967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f0fde48c9---rosunije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72228630533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/3367270408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdchabqeft7dh5tbtuqn2bf7r6/24950291890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945ca932508---zorimekuwobibajibixedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/jujamuvila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/nuvamolazeroguregunuwujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/2303586118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elbdmc6iv954jefg5895e8gbjf/48325053707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/tepovikajewawudotozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/zujojepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f02a00e552c3fdc11abab0790d6427ef/5294132025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/95842280866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murasakijr.com/uploads/files/zabapozamesaxake.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_off00010b71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12388 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 280304dc4eec3d09a6ae861f4a6e8301639155c465533d9c67e2beeec2f0c5f0
font_02_sfnt_off00013c02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C02 19316 bytes
SHA-256: 51d1c9f7b3db22b2a6114776598a386cb36489248b83df721bc3ce68b9666357