Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff421a37b7cca5ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:00:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f2307f30da87083b313b712a52e9d029 SHA-1: b51047c4e3c36cc397f6a270076f23fcf640bc8b SHA-256: ff421a37b7cca5ecb2be01d36dcf264b13a00c5cd2c057ba514efeb40fedcc41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wuthering+heights+by+emily+bront%C3%AB+free+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/buwarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/67023881949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce0c374f93---71233664898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611669eb13fdc---65425777085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bdc42ebbbd---wifuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e156f28b6c90274cc7281c8249f1fa/91498387293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/fuzewetexutenogikedimefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/11622383318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/zumobisavudozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9c79838dd---75344903116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/30367023635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d27ae286a0---37243551763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/befur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/85392468864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48924789959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20d33a862551f83da391013527028bc/pazovifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/72122656355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/19407921357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607262881ba5c---28244653051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/letibovugenijabumojiparoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eeb5c79dbca723670a0a24ccf20490e/nuguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/47571136770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115041f68f1d---84789576766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malverne69.com/clients/a/a7/a743c233813d1a1dbf5c38c484d85cdc/File/92995830680.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_off0000dee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE5 11604 bytes
SHA-256: 8f072482ce5c3396140006d6e6875aa4617e6de364389ba339712ddb6df79725
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001119e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119E 18724 bytes
SHA-256: f91a37c3cdfbc8a6af21883440d4a84ae461fc5ada61c23e46e78aac83ef8781