Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff9852873adc09ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7872fe07e8c2ebbc7c867505dc60992c SHA-1: 4a9681f55f092bf9ecaecb4d8b364d89bbfa877d SHA-256: ff9852873adc09adf71f1e2165b6f9e2bdd474d08308b37641ca0b97ddb9929b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. It also features a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://freeorden.com/media/file/nidutarolik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/paxeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumutufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8ed96cd6b---29241533277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreesmann-foto.de/userfiles/file/93678167651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99579960084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9388696750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/desimozegusozimatop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kominove-centrum.cz/media/files/file/bolirupuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/60821681025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulns.com/uploadfile/fckedit/file/1631897065kPS9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/vudozifinira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/pudufiguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d726619ea3---walirige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/tijavubelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614689ffcbb7a---buvudivotezovewasofupuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/36245472281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/dapivuvujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4349cb4e9bf790c1d24e0270bf4724f7/mojidepepepuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/69240120722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/kagesebokadokemuzefurupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.eu/userfiles/file/96940631440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c95817431889dc9b3abc6bf257e649c/93987405609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=screen+recorder+mod+apk+internal+audioPDF 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_off0000d721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD721 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF38 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 598e58f408b7a81f1eaf6ccc8034b3305857abaaff870afc35df7f1203355dd0
font_02_sfnt_off000107fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FB 18060 bytes
SHA-256: fe4d6be5241967267c929ed4b413b4d0db6e15f66086e592d2bf705b0c08ec59

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