Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7f1c8dec6341d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1a089ebf9e3d88a82f56ba9da867c7da SHA-1: 7f3d6cb54cacdfbc14a97b49528dcad38060c8de SHA-256: ff7f1c8dec6341d7b4060c967e6f873860db64f78930ea5f6ebcc55acefce54a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. This indicates the file is likely a phishing lure or part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript is likely used to facilitate the redirection or exploit PDF vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+everything+kids%27+learning+spanish+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cedaaae645c0811b77cbdb59cd715084/zotesanexelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/tepivibofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediacast.vn/ckeditor/upload/files/segutifoxixupusaxiruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/xenekixagulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/7357973128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cpm27iitngffpou8npgr7ne2f/23382374668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/91611806882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88da36121ae3c97aeb4c8db24127ee31/saxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d84838ac417f26d6b6bb6b2aa78cdb12/34082013221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c4420eec7e2be2b8ad0f2c41462f0a1/37939166760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/moduvoguduxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/sekisewudodonikijozibalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t-groupvnxkld.com/uploads/news_file/jigiwago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/losonopogika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/4083574513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidhichand.org/sahodyatarntaran/userfiles/file/sivuguridirapedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/majeromemeweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f8132fc22---dagin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/kobijagipuregoserizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/55628623845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/xamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba47bba181c---15421618701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8ofta838vsbfdcumfvh1s0lev/xisuwifotepekadelukikomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8023e10d16---35079489091.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_off0000c3ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3EA 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 7f4da18279eeab0760404749b6513280c20a6dcf3724a1c5cfb55138eb41fdc2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A2 11188 bytes
SHA-256: a909721f81785f35833c07642735950c21a33851fddbe073e3e6a8aceeda50c8