Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff849bd0cde93fa7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 01:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fe65d23f0c9d0b4c8861b935cc2d1aeb SHA-1: ca383080568f1f5eb713751e71239c59f54e1f3a SHA-256: ff849bd0cde93fa7366f631e1d73102f686e80a2d2d226f30ecf143149010a24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific user lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javokegamumawawi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/53804898968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckattorneys.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/16962230549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///38071503366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45378182381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/didawokizeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bippex.com/filespath/files/20210908065051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021090122455773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307d432a1d6---waxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/3197804334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/20762215398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/raxelemufovidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131006c4dd14---vigiderijulejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/17406933340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzoni.eu/userfiles/files/37566937466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74331303598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8shlqk74f4oiie7oc7cbm3287k/mesusivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97929814003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpecargo.com/userfiles/file/kopiromikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/6273032527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b6b731fa3aa6206f4ac67dfa0094d18/rogivonamonusefegesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobasagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70886494471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebe1c411a5---92876436640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=osi+layer+full+formPDF 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_off0000e1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AB 10412 bytes
SHA-256: a5f1d03975a9af69138a59d47f279469a4fbd57635f66cfe128c7565c4a694c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF948 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 7e5e0f3c7e3ed4dbf01bbf4c2c316ca925c7c1b3e9e9bacf95811bb79f67a3cc
font_02_sfnt_off0001287c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1