Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff2f65d5db94f880…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c41fd734cedfdfe59f9fe89f581f8867 SHA-1: 53a8fa918741b63a1e835f8255d40ff76a2e5447 SHA-256: ff2f65d5db94f880339040a8d46570a3278d01bc9e192a0f3c89ba4b4849ccd9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF that impersonates a cloud document lure, aiming to trick users into clicking malicious links. Several heuristics indicate a link farm structure, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or to download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://fajni3333.fun4two.pl/uploads/assets/file/25270868720.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homecareangels.ca/files/files/files/29518055650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202109151759391765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinaval.ru/userfiles/file/sobofavopufefaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiduwutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smshealthcareservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rirefunozujokukojugomaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2975c2474---46687077256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-3/20210903064742355329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silireluzuporarukokotelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/divojamanazijeraxunena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanggroup.com/webroot/img/files/88032608700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/25319607150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14l32gg2dsybq3b.com/upload/fckeditor/file/623261538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e09877d34858db342373b8eea55fa1d9/20737884553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_9CF6FA8FEFFA3F40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a115f3fa280196ba4c644fcb97b51215/81697047376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/fipeseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/56847410365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uzsienis.cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/99568130614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448f72598e2---59434323243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhnguyenvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/bifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/niniduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/lusagezagevaboxujudugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/zupejexarekoxezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/nobetewiparane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=acrobat+apk+proPDF 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_off0000e340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE340 18872 bytes
SHA-256: dffe7a5f41521ac278b8f506a5728863a10019c707513a08bbff18d7e19280f9
font_01_sfnt_off00011490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11490 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ca7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CA7 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 2616e43fb9cf0ab449c4839953b4e75e5209811dfc3827f8a5a1eb349b99f01a