Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff2558bd4723a926…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 00:11:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2d02c3e3b646757b5ac7c352a8ea4ad4 SHA-1: 10d6b4b5fe05a55ce130b5edce73b7df31022e9a SHA-256: ff2558bd4723a92627893bd13c9a39dcbc69ab292e6d0f283fd1e23bfb18d6d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romaxitunadalasofifidapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90473896388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/baxiniwufotosatemekejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/87456226448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ac1119368---91843833613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f356dc8eaa---sirafumuwiviter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/68722368784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/kofogufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopits-directo.migrupoq.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kamerudovinofiniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/xorejudoxudapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/kirosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/76709673300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/7304417442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/90190030689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/56935754261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontieregypt.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiredipifudizunasora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109020721103729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/41587944891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/31247904496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/86640179407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/pimixewoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8052eb2d8d2b9efdb3a898f38f5b8921/tijudapokeparinigibojisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=8+ball+pool+cue+hack+mod+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000e7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E5 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 703eb22d5c539c1a4edf335426403a7be728efa943646c30d49f326e0496b94f
font_01_sfnt_off000115fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E11 10848 bytes
SHA-256: be684a618732c848956473a9fa9d2b41e0c62dbe0436343861c72b92e0ba4f89