Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff8bac082f09b8cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:21:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 36bee3f34c601d9c551373e8dffe5015 SHA-1: ce372c829951f0f77279652dd61e944f34f2e93d SHA-256: ff8bac082f09b8cbb6af9dbae456aace5ca13eeeee240aa6b4b9a0193c464555
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or directly to IP addresses, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67455565512.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6858t1k08v4qd61gtn5rv3inm7/lovuxosaburitunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///sajozopomubosakiwebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35f6bd9433---86172655888.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/bewurobizizexenejofusoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/wivoguresutubevilisomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/061a4782ba83f0f04777a2238aa497ef/16559631916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11405908651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/gupokefagilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0415d14531---nemipabaxitorinidolix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/82656502140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/dukavuwexurus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt3k94nva80gvu7hq0dc5trb96/8117610631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87026309079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/97838908541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/38182960113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddla51hf90dvimbsbtlesak2v/39634764999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78909335956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/kasaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/lefevenetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b21d97c16---53321259918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/54308299293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/18520949852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fukoxiganidemoxigoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizawirotusevilasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+algebra+1+book+pdfPDF 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_off00017e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E5F 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 23359d324cb80bcce93e874a0c3ccddb88c211e39cb0cf551813beb8cc820eca
font_01_sfnt_off000196d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x196D7 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 429fc9c98c129ec015c60517080bff3449a29c993c22982a2cd00af03b7fe981
font_02_sfnt_off0001ca2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CA2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1