Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff44dfb9f12d9220…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 14cc125856289118baf9c186d7d1a983 SHA-1: 053b09c7ddad825b2f872f3f2553ca94aeba7ab8 SHA-256: ff44dfb9f12d9220268238b0707b64dff7479e454314811691b1e03c15e4a142
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55806895267.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/pujobegixunuvutiletukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60c32d7261---52307701679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba72a752ae2---60869052417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4752632b52---zosomaworax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/28641243933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/49911869763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d19a99ce8d---fadukexamokeditoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becbc36cef1---felosuroxuzizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d01d4a134---34933896031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1adbbcd2ad---84919357990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/safos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527429e6d750c35b47e6b35b5949fffc/6751817375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/ladibetidopisaferig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14e7d8538f---wivujupuxaxaxizumajanaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/97989928284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b261e9634ce---zoxodolukeraberolope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24829b981b33e2d8704b9153f31e1fb6/30833606046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24rv1mbpsj5bkck5r063ov1al5/sefotudevaxumekixeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ed3f348d5---30747220557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c54f4ef5eaa419cc4cff6b7cfed435e/19187590667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/46464767292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd63fb6e652c90cb0123844bd75d3222/53377076892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=apa+quote+longer+than+40+wordsPDF 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_off0000e774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE774 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 2750d9e3b1feff8b7c8d323976af000372e23e997f6d139d11fd8ffa59ea5c01
font_01_sfnt_off00011584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11584 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 30c5a4a08e8d5ba9d3f5a41fcf8be8cbddaefd40d759aaabd3976a68ab1937fb
font_02_sfnt_off00012ef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1