Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7b28de3024101e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0142a2dca1ac8c2abd3eb67409311c78 SHA-1: ea4831c1b43e9e3ca7670a298cadc90291c6ee8a SHA-256: ff7b28de3024101e1dcbbedb175c2b380834d35a58f9a7fdd232a0a7f94191e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF-related heuristics and the ML detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zubetipifekisetupisi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ea0bc113a592359143df97eb292458/kamelilezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608161f2d836f---13536554487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/nibutolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d5d6ff82f5b933ecf219ed7562ec158/lonunizimilupane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/gipora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abw10thstreetne.com/uploads/files/10786776730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ov7uhv5vu4c36lrmhsmfv2cge0/41094232125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/91433805683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xilerixokawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/tusidisuxikuwelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8fc4009e57---69934907540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/20286889687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/81252092971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1d40ecdfc---nemukagiwajefejiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12roosqplkoahuo8n7mhodcl40/tumipedinipagizijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guijek.com/userfiles/file/xijupoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infypos.cncmonitors.com/infyposcms/media/1810375862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab03e1a3d9---97149592162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12a14c0d84---xotagujogerorowukibideta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430210343590242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/18238850167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6smbrl57qvig143fu7negip5ib/leroxupuwenuluragowajitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=kanakadhara+stotram+meaning+in+english+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2FD 21724 bytes
SHA-256: a4074ee35a1f73298299fe7fe8cbb642948bc9aa319bd23218a106db85a2656a
font_01_sfnt_off00011aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACA 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 62afb54a53e8a170230401d6f8bcb6a382f338ae0dc66b02921b9c4f4610383b
font_02_sfnt_off000133fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1