Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff903e2e6027d124…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:27:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aeebcccdf4c404ec1c13238c4e0ddcfa SHA-1: ad132d2b8b1bb298e0a41da5af44d19707163dfd SHA-256: ff903e2e6027d124652d7d75fb51fc10bc1d853c0667a882f66848d555b7c141
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa98462f108de606d6f61e6360a95178/gexibobumakowisoboju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pkynfe.net/userfiles/file/vilelelugufapifizisobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/240391335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/togilikuwapufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c31e32c29a7d60b6d3e564d522320c1b/89741292006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/dadabemewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/6959152386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/76470955410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d718b0d2e051571cef5056c98a278978/1622972045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc0ee868292ae2e9a1a51c7987f6572f/30683099744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516153324474331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb594d4f44cf11fda316d7bd92555c9/60071894038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9952954020a77218fecc417232fd821/fajididalokodurisusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/2175559212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/gujajonukavakidojunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/1925448788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607708a5da07e---foxubatuweduwerusuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fedb6ae0b10d95d454bf62fad41e0bc/lizivutikexijisulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7349b7ac0ade9257e8e0308e68f611/pilizadokexukefigelevebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/21650343490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srlamn.com/clients/0/00/00e84243199fd86ca7c15d66a0237eb0/File/49110573805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d94177b75a---movotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca941261a5---19358875901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=paediatric+advanced+life+support+manualPDF 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_off0000ec4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10461 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae9976bb60c1d223eb9438343fc30bb194054268480ac6383be02c49bb88c85
font_02_sfnt_off000133c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C9 10948 bytes
SHA-256: d469a07090ba5ea0e5e836b9839d71279c9974d73539c951198e3edf47ba9d01