Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7601d6db69b6fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4e8837e61e2ef816d9195eed4b8dec33 SHA-1: a339bb78ef00412a9a76ca447e223f89d9ce95ea SHA-256: ff7601d6db69b6fd61395af31f812f82e4a4f8017383a165de0f226c721eb7a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of link farms and the overall detection profile indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4102805d3---pumaxuduv.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c7cdbe1d0---7874762118.pdf
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/77352027468.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec111eebaec9b5d19d68c8523f8e6b2/89167002353.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882d14774b3---21776097532.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607547c22d1f9---jotumadilepiveforogosipu.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0771e3220---82519938427.pdf
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1597ee77587605e5b2eda3cfcbe46b73/mumoxidu.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608829d39cc7f---mebejezavovujegaxujosana.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822f439552d---jefezogetuxivopus.pdf
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/laragebi.pdf
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5qgic4sspsvdrv1tjrj6cblbkj/59671262740.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e762d100538a123c48560705d3c8e24/25971222793.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce97f76dc6---13460801713.pdf
    • http://dienmaybaongoc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lajul.pdf
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/58315818979.pdf
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/napukuta.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=punky+brewster+2021+peacock
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6ba.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6BA 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fecc.bin
e597e868d7683d5d2bdea0da74d7d009abebb52862af218661d551a88963d8de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECC 18036 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d2d.bin
8adb35df0990ebffeef037eb2e62ab0bd20f938feccda863af73ead8c7953dcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2D 11056 bytes