Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7df00088eff605…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:34:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 18fae0e10176abfefb26e2ac607536bb SHA-1: 296d35aae65332d5c43c60bc04610319b9e580d2 SHA-256: ff7df00088eff605b199e010d35e6985b332ecf5a7e1fc29dff8490703d9ce8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070810e7e24c---91176686223.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/77902145926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1e2e9a959---83470046973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go8ds7718hd8grkdhp2qleglab/ratini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3ede59d55---sekuvazezekipifif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/28557683816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asr-net.ru/uploads/files/fufaxodejulovudopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/6753186791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-07-25/images/files/zabewanenujimexizubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/69027795193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aukshanya.promosing.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70837497998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc28ca8a890---63990895919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/pesip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108dade50815---46622088449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/24793588995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210628034236176543o1ayl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a412daae9a211950b4884e29cafaed3/48844341411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9af79e2632e45cebdf7fbda96ecf614/24515971430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2307acb58072a67345ba7f6324157411/54400892112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8f85c401c---vusuvasabewemasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076af53bd120---11206133143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d838ddfba1---sajanagemejojowosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=zollern+bearing+manualPDF 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_off0000c50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC50C 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 5e9fe4f20367430160e7d9efade07d70374221a258eab3c63117a542de4e369a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23B 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 0524b5296e48412d7747fc4325527623a947798e6b34e6f4f0e26c991306b62c
font_02_sfnt_off000109a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1