Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff6ef4ad055509d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 09ae0b0f1e53c90519239d18f327a573 SHA-1: 539dab3e6f276ac3dd39da73a095e9ea8e3e65ac SHA-256: ff6ef4ad055509d674136ae7f682c4cbb8bee84481cf0ab32d50cd386edfd15e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs and link farm heuristics indicate a strong intent to redirect users to potentially compromised or malicious websites. The document's structure and the presence of many external links suggest it is designed to host phishing content or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pneumococcal+vaccine+used+for PDF link annotation
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/8026477492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg97pod9q1c41qfetamg8bac54/zusomiwenepemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/61671885583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ca6998abb---60891750513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768a6dc68f2---48718960663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/47305090478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da21aee0c838d80d91ce669dd66085a7/mabizukivedigerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da3da2b7154---69210223575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/pumiwudagozupefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxavalipolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb47442b41a5b6ae0586fb682f7a2784/ruvedisirojuzuloxipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/daxobatuvutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/nunedagipexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/nonetemizivezurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3953d3329ca384747d28bdfc803f9b11/79357612421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dg1booq8efhj9vsbgcpfopdsru/95843335169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b32eba608dc3ab1a931d42ee2cacc417/48950038082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b326929ae2a42510b9b3a77d576620e/bopijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/98942260658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/109897542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/jufibemovivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601e53bd3a4d2c285378f7485e72c4ab/zumetunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiprojektai.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/29742036196.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_off0000fb69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB69 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 31b677a31bcb1d0d39b6b4e3f85f64e4f62300bf6a3f4816b286c41fa9c514e6
font_01_sfnt_off00012981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12981 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ddb42430cf3acc17923657351e945e05351e4e7ee2ef3f41dbb2d3efe0429bf1
font_02_sfnt_off0001420c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1420C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1