Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff9035758fd26d0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-09 01:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c9482739fa1f8e18bf711f2ed5b29202 SHA-1: 495f8ff5d7d7361b0867c8e7298285d9e9869fa8 SHA-256: ff9035758fd26d0fec901fdcf191f51176425c0b41b22dc61ff087c98c824ca9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the presence of a link farm pointing to multiple external domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's structure and embedded URLs are designed to trick users into visiting compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to download further malicious content or lead them to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lunakiwodewozuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/xebofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65b7c5848c---90147067060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talleresimad.com/images/subidas/files/4179535669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/78475318669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/venejigeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/60897745240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/41355170807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/vipejizaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781a8af3e52---bumofuwasodapiguvapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lagvmrudkf36oh65dieb237u56/34167936215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/boregeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpbnatation.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xobifonarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6238b574edfd2ee90a3fc47879804c3/tisevavola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia1973reunion.com/clients/3/33/33cb7023d77084166ed027ca16b579b7/File/77435916120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/kiruzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n5ukbkkpi8hkah8b21c4sv5cf/71814167861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86acf3235f6f782a815720887a657412/35662912726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/xuvobaged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/952167e719cf4de814ee6b5744cf054d/xedegunanukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/puposofezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6e46e1d70d3e135f26ebe8c4150a5c/60518382419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74280002089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/xatomefizuwopunududito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/balafosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+existing+text+in+photoshopPDF 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_off0000f5fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E15 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 2e294dd52978204d0ae36fb01d4c881c288656376fc6e7e8a1eda7f0cc605d9d
font_02_sfnt_off000125d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D9 17460 bytes
SHA-256: cad4201f38c64fc845b379b21362e91886bfdd85c7f183bf50ec8dd53cc1985a