Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff89fdf95e275c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-08-07 18:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 296581f4cee665d8c3a7e8a5724155fa SHA-1: 8463096375bdda7a0c7fe2a8f83276c66ccdc70e SHA-256: ff89fdf95e275c90c37ed21e57b848aeb33105bda1e1b2011142dbba348d00f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further exploitation. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, untrusted resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94c98c82ca---61944489508.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f165617d77f---xugebidisaduxenokexuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://th-hl.com///upload/files/69838558617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image//files/41390814535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/tuwubijabudofeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp9tli1b8t3k9fpvc7f8to8c35/xodevivarananebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/zolerawoletuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/zusorozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2320b0530f---25957944421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/kavofurigamanavamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/gividibeselogatapixakovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b708ccfd02e81d96cbacc8c3d4be6df4/41625539149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/xiwumirekepekonuzekebibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf334f121c8---povapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/22188460211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/vebagifenefebewepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ufbqigsh4qnscsa712gv7d5q/85622917326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/58739727348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210603004305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/bowivotubinosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/90691645135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headlinesdinerla.com/uploads/files/39595960227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/7843627759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/dapawukomaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=convertidor+de+pdf+a+dwg+gratis+en+lineaPDF 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_off000111b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000129cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CF 10856 bytes
SHA-256: b370fc6147c821b130d57f1aacf2ebd263b48ea74ab3b729771efad28df34462
font_02_sfnt_off000142e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142E9 21948 bytes
SHA-256: 585e52519255b3f6ca96be97ada74fa2e9c1d9a605026e2a181d403a97bcca2d