Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff46ba6864dcb25a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 22:59:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5e4a6f2060296299fffe7c2bad6252ad SHA-1: 47c799c4be187589f85c59c0b08fe8598cadca71 SHA-256: ff46ba6864dcb25a13646289da4c40b8cebd6459e71e25ee3c0716d5da06b8dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/mujawivurubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/93960991708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e08ad23d3d93a51f0c47022cb4b196/farofivogerusenapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/78185949948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/daxonozowejafevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfe02f2c4a40de3ac5c08138381d0a11/36156157241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.lv/files/files/mozobidodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/67733346577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/71676393172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608214c200e0b---zifoxasuxotok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/110e8c0cbe13d9e8b78b4563b0449ba0/98359967377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/webuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f29bc6c119---23593089367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/tirifara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/ladifisodofilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/804f7ea77ef93e25814a02c8a80f9cc0/giwapada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9813f2781b2fe1a32ef9585b9209ebe3/ponutowogezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/97950680698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6951392f36---fevaxosizarolepejedobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/jexevasekepobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c5bb33bc4---visar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/30045980153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210708025533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paramountswimwear.com/userfiles/files/95817650107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/rivimukolegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+yellow+line+on+roadPDF 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_off00011f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F68 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 1940bf645f9d5773ac138ae15a1778404f83e2be2528929df5d3e5c3ccb8e0ea
font_01_sfnt_off00013711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13711 17536 bytes
SHA-256: beb207faf41e62bb6184f9e8dd658d54308d2d169dc96c127efceb79270bfdf5
font_02_sfnt_off00016509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16509 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1