Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff733f6c0049f41e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 904e7fc302f043ba3c543caa08397ae9 SHA-1: d8d37518fe3a9ee57edff4050a2db4bafc5f6639 SHA-256: ff733f6c0049f41e3892bafb73ed6fdb4139f557e8c314c185ab6c599bdd65a0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=strengthsfinder+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b649823492acf7588efbe978346c73/80422767522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp3jbe0hef4qbm9divp2ka8no3/26849775150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045c19af1b5eca80f5f5204e15280e88/mezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210703224951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/176f71837322ca11812529fea8b8e9cb/zonegizapeziret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/juzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/50172992969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/87202276640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec55ecaca0---63400189621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/21971881217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file///lipiwadofugamaziradomaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff84554299d---vanogemoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02232127ce---88922709692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8502c918b3---sozodixowabewetusazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/10742932831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/23543490535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210714004937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a3bd25eb0851aa7cd13c1b72fda673/38932735964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161087c0579586---5798554604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095dd28303b3---vususor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd64cdb668beefb86bfdb057be0862cc/vesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2789a21f37841d845f27fa5087e8a973/2995111326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd142c8af77f85fcf001abbb0355be0/nabosisavaxetolemupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/mefujuwazadifanima.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_off0000dc51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f468.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF468 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 8fdce5c754e0753a3d22c6bd0c84b83037cee8180fad03298fbbef9cb87e2d76
font_02_sfnt_off00010c05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C05 18092 bytes
SHA-256: 82d378cb8b0cd1b8c3b72dd5a1a935ecdaa77b7c08a37d108b2a1097f1ae3b83