Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff84568c584faa3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:11:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3c86cf21529e72ee654fb17d89562004 SHA-1: 8d0bacb729394744d642a4670f271efa957b9d21 SHA-256: ff84568c584faa3a1b696d6dcd745a29030540348dad409afbd211d5db69949e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings suggest it's designed to lead users to further malicious content, likely a phishing lure or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/49089327440.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pernambucoimortal.com/imagens/files/705152878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/mugolewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20444385639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanvietnamdinh.com/uploads/files/79345739673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97499039176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/bipenuwerewizuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/93313232452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnyinfeng.com/d/files/55213564324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///gibowegutavakagezuzuvota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utpcomp.ru/uploads/files/34207815730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613fc8bbc89e4---xazirizodewasopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahrek.com/userfiles/file/mizudawagesuxugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff979511dc---mowegibatutemonitafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/zekolufowoxalazoluvija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/74199728301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66745673476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/389d8175e90e06a1fbd638cbdd28f854/jodutajataninajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/datidawabame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/leridodoposojurazosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/zajulepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/83811813983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/duxoselobibasubipodijegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norrlandet.se/userfiles/file/jusokurosebunavidike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/40005175714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/20656344754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+32+64+bit+isoPDF 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_off0000ecd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EC 10732 bytes
SHA-256: ce9770ad8e1a5f9a3bb4d40f73fc282b33bc794e33fdc1f811f1dd067487c027
font_02_sfnt_off00011ddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDC 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 36b828ec82ca530af7b32103aac2b32c0af27fe2e9bad8aa27fcadf9a34b26a8