Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff346fa4c2ae19ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-08-09 22:52:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8918e1422e4e5ba03d6ddf39aa080335 SHA-1: bfd18426585c083b899c2d6edc36ac61400d00ee SHA-256: ff346fa4c2ae19ce83c7546b2fcee7541cd9102cef17d6d77760995ecd47d2bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+casa+de+mickey+mouse+espa%C3%B1ol+latino+capitulos+completos PDF link annotation
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/81809321597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mietkndigungsrecht-best-gpc.de/userfiles/file/dusadilanutumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geraldkleinlaw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50104318308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfr7j85i7ntvtf2tq3c58pb519/witizogadexizamotaxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hus2o6tjghe0k53g1q9p9dat48/44873033662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/64409085529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/kebonukepiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagegonusetaleruzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d45bc9a32d0---40777998312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c16b65b9a---pebisilaworofatozesekozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a789d9341ec---jokipepanidijanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steffis-strassladen.de/userfiles/file/fenejujivuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbeav0bv3ap9b64tooeu23njn5/tozabozivopowilazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/wavunezomozeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e3be5d5dc---92281333443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bcdb30fdee55caab8908e56a7b33e04/tezejufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/37027435347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9fe5e7af0---92485392215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/vawavizokajitugida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f58027f7e2---kexefage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/suwulunurinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607434051cd42---37581811045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b353fc45108a2eb394c012859fbc20e7/xodiresuwitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001207b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207B 11044 bytes
SHA-256: fcdbba16e5fe347b3c54ae4dbdac633f820772b8be433021aaf3c971ad8d27cb
font_01_sfnt_off000139fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001520f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1520F 18792 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1309c07d591ca6fdb89754462adde94dc9b6733101d70cd3466d52df6e1dde