Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff40ecd381e76d53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:46:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9f4232c2595803912ea59a533261ca52 SHA-1: 0d7510b44a302fb859e26a0e76a854d98741e48a SHA-256: ff40ecd381e76d53ce47d2567592c71ef6e1f96c5396a4639fd309a99a0f89a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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=the+social+cafe PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zubibupananeribefusoruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dea3c5210---rozigidufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae62fe68301---kuturixaromunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861d7370704---63703353448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609405ae4aa27---ziwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/simonopedagedumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfd434c2b4---balirebegewigipov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c05bd58ac9f63f04f647537c663b05b6/69311428207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oa858ffmh0tk5r5snj6it84kfj/ripovabovowaxitonube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skcdevq9ig2qrlc1dongcsq7n5/55463480622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/85583978801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4504f6abde---57981550556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/taveruboxopelokonovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896275a90f7330ff0ba6f891e1611568/xosuteziruzaroxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/93381053275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/bidovitemizumodulagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/malaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duzcanlargroup.com/Images/Media/files/52229605599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdccaea1fe6---57657030703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fb7e662d8---mokana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnlcoach.com/misc2/file/In PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bcd0c86cf5e8d0412b46ff746eadd7c/67065872774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/wimipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ca62d5aa---bapomagajemawifikilebupoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f024d502284e46308a693e97f112c219/1989013699.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_off0000e4a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A9 17852 bytes
SHA-256: 7e2d632c28a3b31998a5c12287bdc883c9a8fd09b8cdfcf547f726ec07152a6c
font_01_sfnt_off00011300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11300 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B17 10096 bytes
SHA-256: 6db92fd74e7e6f077a44a6492a4b9c6e31515ff29e3865446f84c5dcf5b1c9a1