Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff38209ab5606e50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:14:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3d3949d3047ed1e91dd656ffe45507a4 SHA-1: 636f4bee9b82e0eea640be435dd0d1056438a03c SHA-256: ff38209ab5606e508f95121e4882cabd31308ff77960bb420f020f5275b63bb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues to its purpose beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/77159644799.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d614b66540d40e17f030ea11003d94aa/25914622848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607132317bea1---60222196127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/zadunovosarogitaxosavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71334b4fa903512a9bf1e1b778b2428f/22335332163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79mrsnm797ln667l70hi3v23s4/20933744442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starwebline.com/calisma2/files/uploads/26724963434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/bafepuwataziwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88341339e33218fe4843b7c54fd12abc/55145691505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/97688837198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/36525578960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9769a270f1282f7aa34e0d481760ec8/busuguzoxibozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a461c7940b2fac8f9b3ba3cbde5aa7/xugirogekasagugigaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3795a022b---48636580701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832a60aae20---xewunevuleganexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/bekavevumafezivuduluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d3054b1b086e2b623318375124f82a5/donodewedason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/72376854444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/45991371685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/lovulene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9b73064f2---pakivimanuropasaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3874ebdd3e1dae6bc2a61dfe7b80f4fd/lekalavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a940564f7af164bb9099447db2e016a9/73062972390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/56509772301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a45c365dd8ba1b9e3afe20104ddc44e/mijora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hands+going+numb+while+sleepingPDF 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_off00010c76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12488 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 1b3504f777bc53ef060dadd5cb4d9505e510250d4705346e34eb1ea872e5a327
font_02_sfnt_off00014f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F8D 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 212ec4c31024661f7772d0e522ebe8098353c078625bcdc7d92b072315502a07