Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff251f2bf095da8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-08-22 01:03:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5728208cc2d0cd687afcfe896e1e542a SHA-1: 99a73199e4c334563258dc36fc5f3b1921ba3e4f SHA-256: ff251f2bf095da8c1760c9d00a6bf7a674a967bd8fa7b05f061dd5036709bcbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute malicious payloads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous unknown URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f19df89603943a0a54da74c99f4a29/pudil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57eace7dfc---bolupemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de03f1c8759---80657586304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61kiif06737sqi33vuovv8adc5/56317241911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ff6bb7e3b---dufesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/xizune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/1813787675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/wifowizevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba82dac3a43---vanusimonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/41103477590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12c6e416e1---26941538741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/talulonasafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c30e7e71f---jodaxiposomewuwefudeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36356963396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14244671989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/53868156550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/likexobinexixexaxupexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/889138aa7e66347cf8f6173751b003af/desutojoraxalaxobifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f605fbb693---20042342309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29pek0f22sre5tsuhjk4obep7q/fivavetuxinoxojusewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc68d43ea94---66228107590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/37367632523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a89e38816---21085672028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/wegegamurikonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/jedevezise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/fezebofevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+driver+bluetooth+asus+a455l+windows+7+64+bitPDF 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_off0000e5bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BC 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 0cb961aaaf25287088c763b02b56cc4b21f0df34450cc05ab99f7f64022d1838
font_01_sfnt_off000110de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F5 11168 bytes
SHA-256: e201a0216ae8e39bfb0cb10b1f0d5cfd7249be565c36f93ef485efffab75deff