Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff1dedee066d468d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-07 20:56:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: eb5fb0356c2b0087ba3a0cae7dac3ec3 SHA-1: 05c170dcefc4eb9aa04823976668b7e84dbb442c SHA-256: ff1dedee066d468d51739e84056f0f741b174e8a9f3d4805859ead5d2d6d1718
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but reinforcing the suspicious nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c316cfc93ed4c073b0489135f0c2b9d4/lelivewikogireribogebi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3861f835b1---91369329586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17irhbsa9ra6a7e7gg732mtqjn/65950939475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leresto-niort.fr/images/userfiles/files/26751939083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/giwupuwefigewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/44212369280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa3a04f4e2---jalizuvozofobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3bdd063f2---lepefanijipidawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/56693758735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/mofivalosedujoxupiwinedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/52743774797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/8130358810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46579217410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210713131423_vlagpl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792ec5404f4---gudutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/kokibivavizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d1p7s60q536fcjpi49e8shun/nidojagidopusevidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r55h37a1t60raifso7vl2gk5u8/19255304182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/21571231074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c207c307b79---wenetorojufima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acad25b55c4eb764d048decf169f0e53/66904517914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33ae7a5730206d4d358290c80991bc30/47989947854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12745bd0400e14764d659bf8abfdc390/foxarofaxudeler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+duties+of+a+business+office+managerPDF 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_off0000ed48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED48 17420 bytes
SHA-256: c160bc50339ab06f9f975c67f9cfe4c65dcde2ccd24564f79e74d2b9743d230a
font_01_sfnt_off00011a5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13271 11108 bytes
SHA-256: c829697fadda39bcb8cd903cb4fe53ce469866f1512b7c8dcd40965f15be358b