Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff493fa89519f77a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 01:22:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 3dcc4583b955319bc18804b920041522 SHA-1: 06573648471b9e0234d28861d8b0a861f3a17ed9 SHA-256: ff493fa89519f77a5bbccff1152a83501a4da956673897021a13d1e266f3f217
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to WordPress upload directories on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=what+is+an+emphatic+word PDF link annotation
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc22a65937---duwevexotejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/dunatavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/merag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a160412d05a---fejufumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/votuxanenejepudanigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721fc699069---15130815256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8bbc0bb495a925c6ebab15fcd4a2678/1475354948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bea1cee2e7---wopupagagisufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f340dfe663ca2c4812184ba291f671d9/xebawuparigavubewinogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ns6maqkrun92crtf0aa51npeo7/guwosijunajufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/7228138705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/59301499733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/pavaxenosizibivuveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/wudosizafapewobudora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cihiqpf3q6so6v94slecj866s6/pitepudanere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e12d4eb89---fodezopodojerovakoxamil.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://kovtec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/gonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941d52be092---30598668741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6df810638fb7b1adaf5db5442a071f9b/vaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligelafefogifaleja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfdskpq16f0ruu23rr3h2mtte5/25114347190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/walowuwosutavupetutasafu.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_off0000cba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA3 10812 bytes
SHA-256: e374480fc2f0fcd4cf35b2ef38bf58d00e0bac51c34ab6a79fd258c0d1c08676
font_01_sfnt_off0000e46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46F 17936 bytes
SHA-256: f7a2cddc7cb318d8dfb1104c3a8e7ec18c4ea1b2c96be061ec02a75094f54f1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001134d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1