Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff4b5ad12d6a493a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:49:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 006f21d95910df5c3ba9e0746a168bbd SHA-1: 01570efc5a13b94130f1cc468f02ae68f730e379 SHA-256: ff4b5ad12d6a493a13d99d00b016d0d7a67a83f3d3ce7f10e16c00f3a75c7081
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/58926353173.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94008745848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gcoekmr.org/cukashmir/User_Files/imagefile/85474535618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sepremprod.fr/www/images/mediamanager/mopigogapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpd69dbp7t7spaqcqvcg2crs5g/wajoriminafexexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18780264014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/23447459485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d899c66267---732897212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74f5d21a01---33903303805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608a971c81a44---59181167094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/sixevunevisalitajunubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b75227213988814fd9c71cfe384f8b/65371689188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/jetipolifilaweruborufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac88b17c7013b136696d16cfa6b579f0/megizelorisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fb69a5117507abc27ef29a968186ea1/10559768000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviafond.ru/userfiles/file/wererofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/manuwutanijisowewefozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/84736033660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/64483404343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607070919e586---fisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/jolujuzelasevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/sagefikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30308271632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/situdideduzanodis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapmaymn.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/lupivumuwujowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=soda+pdf+3d+readerPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5a28d27f01b46bb4279736d79c2de53/65642749844.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_off0000dcfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFC 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 53e550f82772382bf38602ce18e4ff1bf5b76f31efe7650bef52af322021db24
font_01_sfnt_off00010a66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001227d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227D 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 0288334ae5b758a14a8566d7660aaf64924759e392f0d59244d54de78cf831bf