Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff3a071409c9641a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0bfbef373fa1a9fd11a3779f7eb95998 SHA-1: 0398bd84d7cef3ad0297c472dfc9a7eccc0a5bb3 SHA-256: ff3a071409c9641a28bf757b452ecc6b69d0158cfdd168da5e29fa67bc9e1c4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rabaey+solution+manual
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/57819022767.pdf
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94clf904an43pak5enumn0n1m4/9996194299.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52c5fbfd668909747335d63fbcf7c3fe/24167204597.pdf
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mgkj8u8a8pr7rapdqn4e1kntt/88485512434.pdf
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/zezabufasigevovus.pdf
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/86486099331.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c59b997dd6---67073817146.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1a9f4e88c---64432181286.pdf
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfc0fef93c---xedafivolewufokobuxit.pdf
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/38966954720.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fb1d33d6d2e2f4f24a1c45db50f131c/gotilegowusuwonuzuk.pdf
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/xigunig.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70448796e7---9106293683.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a24e2abb38517bb54642b9d1cf8fd47/90707010904.pdf
    • http://bollywoodsalonskokie.com/admin/images/file/90517017244.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/gopanuzapomo.pdf
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/93440624238.pdf
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/42732080166.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3af7708ba6387b931dbc8c34d82cf723/64850568719.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a0e6d5154---83029815158.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffe7d1fa06---48111162094.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017a0e.bin
f4e0cf2e0a9fa1c92299e6c70fde3874d1b72708e104fc2c902690ee54271821
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A0E 10568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019237.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19237 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001aa49.bin
52a45246fcf374cadddb30f5211b7eb370aa8e17eccc7f6a7ee0e096cf7b6fd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA49 17692 bytes