Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff62c0b687d69697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-31 05:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b3bf7ecaf041882290d79b32846f4f1e SHA-1: aeda8796fecf2c078f007e913bd01d53ead1cf92 SHA-256: ff62c0b687d69697751477e1695a4edea3b366228d5f075f898a3e0a60a680e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=coughing+mucus+after+eating PDF link annotation
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607540e3dd0b1---gofovelitaliluvigazulapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/92141118399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074485918d3c---49411351484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75b0a482ce6388c432d0d186bdc42ae7/47662554582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b053e00f5---4499452111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/rarove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles//file/baxiriwegazoravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d031ba910dc007de497fb3bc94f11631/80302752699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b279da2747b---pilupujedefepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95ca8b78b2---taserezimade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/tupetikimurajefure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlato-invest.cz/upload/files/famuborewefupidipenibozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161105516ebeb9---buvokogijuposetemegapawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ff516211c---28838484349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26617510181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/fusogemagefipinewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607348865b26e---pejonuwitavevir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/91960951895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/99397205862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/55823857797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/25110567235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/29365289634.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_off0000e10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10E 10868 bytes
SHA-256: d7990194459c1ffeccdbcb56c53baff8e31554031588e697083000f9490f929f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA01 16820 bytes
SHA-256: f7c7a39ad71a0c57f3f18e4e6c443270dea785520a71ea4fbc628f41d7e16d58
font_02_sfnt_off00012560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12560 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1