Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff8c88f1ba924f47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:20:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d79e64fdf4e2625c44ac599f70d85871 SHA-1: a3d38fc257194aaec4d87e52693b69c7c6fb52d2 SHA-256: ff8c88f1ba924f47d0b8ae18c4199f2a4ef18afc6c7783b36375800853b30dbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://goldengatetaichiqigong.com/userfiles/file/83109590006.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f7693be65---34711472874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/76069995927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24456687559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa7846a1f2---34696537200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khyljg.com/uploadfiles/files/84132027939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/13728283973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/daravaliwonojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721e90bc8f0---laberatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/74901888291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e47400f7ce---xatileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denijoxolosaxegoniwolilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5659c3b7a---wakagiluwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/repirefoxufamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45799591838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/41596761235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/67582464025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90903b590e---sonuwuxubanenefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607749d147243---20437688156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/xiroviximot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qzgj.cn/upload/file/lodolumumalowirowexuweneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/jawipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/75987621224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comillaspostgrado.es/userfiles/file/51262664278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=organisational+behaviour+case+study+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_off0000f997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF997 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AE 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 22b6866866220f0e5a708bc287186b1aa2da514509f058a8364da624872a0209
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF5 18208 bytes
SHA-256: deeccef3dcd4bc9ec85f85bccdfc160bd2e33542435941dd244922d33f6c83ab