Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7f2c940824211e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:34:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0365acc628c973a0b9d969c497fc5e40 SHA-1: a6ef646cc0229e3c6fa36d91d8fbb5bdeec930d3 SHA-256: ff7f2c940824211e88bc4163143d2f24cf6117e0c19f655fbef387f32009b24f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs and a specific link to a compromised WordPress upload storage suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/kemagewalevog.pdf
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20963048009.pdf
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/89116713653.pdf
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/mefibegefunum.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ad95882da62d7113d782a9245eddd78/kalarigazuxiw.pdf
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/81425966505.pdf
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/31424960263.pdf
    • http://kdsonline.org/userfiles/file/41144999046.pdf
    • http://www.prctech-th.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowidubagamurisadasafole.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a2ffd2325---wusawivus.pdf
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/31297673044.pdf
    • http://birdwatching.sk/media/file/lidogidanodobabilivelur.pdf
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/nudimabeledid.pdf
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sitifexerujuz.pdf
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/jexezapikefasipogon.pdf
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bovizabukaxazuf.pdf
    • http://tumakuruvoice.com/tumkurvoice/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36541049494.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/850522536613003498543b.pdf
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/pofexoxaguwuwivifudaniwix.pdf
    • http://olympiad-bigben.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babotid.pdf
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/xekirijakopenaxusalemose.pdf
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/35413471522.pdf
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/tevojo.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bgpr29c87h2jm9dvv8768cm0b/64304843162.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=farming+simulator+2020+apk+obb
    • 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_off0000bc6f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d481.bin
eddb7d3b9198e4ea70936fea6c6c459b1cfb66bb835bba23ee8e6c97a915f033
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD481 17148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010072.bin
c0ff5476d56af900880a3d872e2dc478593d8479af60db9e06d2dbc31e99f5e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10072 11012 bytes