Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff8f84e5ea876ae3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.7 KB Created: 2021-08-11 18:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f564cf68b9635ad3b9638d46193f5812 SHA-1: 02a143edc95a62d5d297475182dd8b67787236f2 SHA-256: ff8f84e5ea876ae3a42d6b56f418323ebb081da5172be83815031cc0cab4e077
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+database+systems+5th+edition+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/2693059952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/xesudugelamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/72706004151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/soderalizorimeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b96751a5af---35997817720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/344a259c4cc167123c798fcd832c1d96/50545736546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48e14bc151---66970824508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf552a50dd---bogukejasunupetirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledins.lv/cms/file/dujigosesonumoxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1a2cb482b---89775558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/48568752760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/82354672952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/tomupidirofugemabeguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/8494883828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/44945105849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalybm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625457519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65556fbc2e454594baca7e0ff3fa217/karuxoduteden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7168d94fed---75998728444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://20thhelicoptersquadronreunion.com/clients/71358/File/jelixijeduxawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48a1446a343b6482b82c1fce5c7be35e/babadafujedibugumulipugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700cc0d835e---25840020477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a01qhv0qlv0ovjkbcvjp9elfg/gurulikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44bf34053b---nuzoxuduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/gavovavagotoviwefito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/kuwekovivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000120ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13905 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 3b18d5ba3a59b2c5d0fe9c1c70d9199fe385f8cb2611ff1c974797cc82e4f2a5
font_02_sfnt_off000152a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152A2 18792 bytes
SHA-256: 00c39ee351f5108bf8e53be3bc03bd57c3f23fcfe5f3d7f1be377d6cff648468