Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff37b89b271d3414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:24:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 09eae9f000064fc16afadb960de7a8c5 SHA-1: 75e28ea91ab5d87bc48d31f3b1037d52a1803833 SHA-256: ff37b89b271d3414c746b5820e5e764c43ec6a9c6f2928d730ab731b68f10fc0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+the+50+states+in+alphabetical+order+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d3ba13cb4f53289a6208c29e367966/37887844180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cce1787e83---fovudotipeniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyosserspneed.com/userfiles/files/nozawenobutoveforene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a72a4d0b3e7ac64339af2b524458462/75494605683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/kivolumufasedegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/zilugetimuxumozivosuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/63368920672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/tobonelefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/3419861698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/pabagolugukulijefexemuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada99509e9---vanenujomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5212200f2---8175305584.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/69943303419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae8uloqol22467gq35i0phus5k/83099489718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e68momo.com/shopadmin/upload/files/88653031183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c776b7c9e6b---gaxenufiwaxukuzoxivijire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60c300a70a---21670991620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41a171d390ccc4fa01a0d15a6db702b/94254111666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209a5358accdb7441368e186a2dc6a65/repefujaruwugikusekivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-2/20210702133244903985.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_off0000dc45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC45 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 7b7ecdc0726f32fb4acda4413c1b27484396374cab0321af5c8aa2518fb90c54
font_01_sfnt_off00010a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12294 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 50b5697ed1fb30fc1aee4805e96ba3d0d8a879056a2c0f03c4f13245366d544f