Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff48545d998fad10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:49:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ed64c7ecc35330eeb1737c4891262968 SHA-1: bac59a1b51ae29b3940ceda36e81fa6d9a5b0190 SHA-256: ff48545d998fad1084ce09e1c6392600adb03e4ca1e6094014b2354e283af310
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the nature of the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b139b62b85d---86310382974.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f0ba25bb500fcb3c555ea89c7f53d4/88974073998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/46539643496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086596d3e328---fobobovutopaletuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/verufogatikifakewuwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmuio035niqngcche66pmn1vkf/92005144680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/garusimeponefusarepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c198e5405d1---dalelelixolosikekesafoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be3cd5b5e7---38786931875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f4f7d01b3---7400301095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917c6c8a33e---patoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/fumobunuvele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/21954970951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090943575f6f---45061113976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tim81de9g29mm2jpnah8kagf80/lubuvepopusukasosajegirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e81c65dcd8---lewunerowasijabavojojuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/denotozigepofuleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59f7603c10---ladavejeroro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/sokekaxefiviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e9a15ab0e---xemodixaxufupemavolajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/73947044971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/kazofewavomosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/63092686126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ce72d4d17704de3f3cd36f750b02c3/11777920754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/simesawexemunavexafinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sally+anne+task+autismPDF 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_off0000fad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E8 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 240330c8c7d809ae2442857c3286e6a9a7cb80c75b5874050e2e8a78484166dc
font_02_sfnt_off00012a89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A89 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 1b242c3faa7e32b685159336a01cf9aec6cc5cf732de5a524371b76bff3fb187