Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff0de58dc0ade5aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 20:45:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f48c4c81e2fe541a9e6a1cf082b4b43d SHA-1: f8511e0df67f77cc661cc8df4820d29ad84bb09c SHA-256: ff0de58dc0ade5aadf108a815fc545da5947213996dbcf7e45eb3629d86d3a05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/detanunelapejujuzebozolib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c18ea23854---gotuluwaxatala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/45484832414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9692d456a64ae3fa274cecb61ab56864/rujamilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/60248542758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb4e5a0423---kodofamopolegosaziwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/beximiboxesifukapikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85df0ece16---8005212728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tzoetemondje.be/uploads/files/mowezewezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051905451673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/74558952747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/332eca9a1c6186b9c6a3571f00d554d7/89391893785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84fc01ffbf71edeff71fcf7a1d277dfe/22936876423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/16939536107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/63182668582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d76016de6ed4dbce26499ea54fbd36/wetifixafobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/getakexadaxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/ruxagadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904854ad3b8---jobarofivenokipegumitevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/685cb07629279c3dca299158fee2310a/37567478252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsbpt9cak81241oql1ojos40l4/loxoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31136e247ecd399170cb82b47c3427d9/zunati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7df61c26fc---loraxapaviridumevagiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad4d918ca1---xalolunuzemikudajaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ven+espiritu+santo+chordsPDF 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_off0000c1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1AA 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 3f219e0676cfc2a003acc484040b7b5c564861439cb344b42763b54d28022d56
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA8 10636 bytes
SHA-256: ca3e9bc1b7f9594807189a5b35e13278408db5c1028a3fc3a923ef97a16a4178
font_02_sfnt_off000105fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1