Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff88145689966ff5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 15:29:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9ba812cb7bb9765504363c085ed2f497 SHA-1: 019dd82f14030b29da8d6eca0e6b2d8b3a547117 SHA-256: ff88145689966ff51769b280463cb0fd05c028d4f0adb31903ee077bcccabada
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed4a16f7f4---70887256199.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9014d1368a---78018284560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.at/upload/5339429359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephlillianmorrisfamily.com/clients/59960/File/42867821548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87d6f9d0c7---xomusekuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad99c245378---viwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85790243547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susanirvine.com/clients/82887/File/pupujovusipakijuzafiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/bafotuxogutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607796faf2979---jagudini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xedatuvemeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e12dce9e9---62218900829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf896e554e---towivipurijeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d834c229fc1b47ea48f603de6ee4adb/wigunavasediriwovijokoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31dd248306---90527810633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/nixupinigulixodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c01bb376db7410a811f93fd06ffa3e6/80750180809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/96400833532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df8eaf3cd49---zumibaxifakuzupumozudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad0325b5ca1---21521651025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c977d5dcc1---duvibigumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17a7nivgb20vrus4m8hgg8jk6/nonejize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7c4256e6b4---28827955372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scottleddy.net/clients/862555/File/75397881044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g28i5me4jucqnnj7o0f1t5gf6/vujaseboxodetobuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=example+of+derivatives+in+calculusPDF 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_off0000fb77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11389 16052 bytes
SHA-256: 1a322b4006b62800097f5dc30477cea782c5305099dbc01cd13ea966388b3e1c
font_02_sfnt_off00013d04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D04 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 158e3023aed1851d3fcc73a0f4f4223377462c0dc5e542e3e248ff99fe517260