Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff423495f4a10269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:21:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 0ef5004dadb84d4cfaa01ee2903da205 SHA-1: c544726ed792cbdc30bc38bae075b83b9f4a4874 SHA-256: ff423495f4a1026925d8fa139f8d28316a941f2fe65632449df31d2b50f0b0f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lumii+photo+editor+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/junok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/32466280277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongming-eco.com/userfiles/file/marimekajitalivipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/74999784047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7e50593fd1c22d73472fece6730765/panitemugozafugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://origo.ws/userfiles/file/pufatizijakikinuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/vugelezajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/zewifibasurasejomawisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/favemewupomiratobema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400563526c3---86069531150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/50099917680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b77d2d1550bea4824c4df141b3af048/farojeletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390edf3fdbb---viduseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22227712964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ba8781440---kavozulurutawatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cfd443004c---zawubuluxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3bf8cfac3---mubulexofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhkygroup.com/luutru/files/15050855092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/78946298048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/wovewamulavimotelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netichikawaya.com/userfiles/file/wuzifizinukaxomarega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telechips.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49197094024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18082582622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-16/f91e50a715cb5c7156a447c03290eca5.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_off0000df85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF85 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 90248bf42aa53001381203293315e200a1385b37970f930b71c7169072256613
font_01_sfnt_off0000f753.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF753 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 8e2df4b8c315b3698e1a87506ec83526f850b5ef3754a62c9a1dc8a5159bcbb0
font_02_sfnt_off0001294a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1