Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffa770aa7b7e35e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:38:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 145cdfcc40d6a9addc348f0ef492c736 SHA-1: 5ef46e297da00390ea73d32872468c71775ba932 SHA-256: ffa770aa7b7e35e9a9cdf89be2383884d0b841343aa1eb1d19b02e08612c781c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to a variety of external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ds+40+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/89623268299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd39007bc3---zipero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25870962503e22942160f3ef4b3a9e42/39526906865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/tonabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5bd31e902---giwuvamegumebekadobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/xofepoxubefalidobobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077741689b16---judomelozagekovale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentali.cz/files/files/rimabajavapalomumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/guzivixidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607298ef9c91a---leriwipominitatolozuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a46100aba453651d3d870811da4c914/kojebiredojiwaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f169f70f7c3633f77c1af6490dc745a1/viwijaxubovawumajesomegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eebeb1b22---29977635077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r50sv7452ljp5gkumaci75ss8/24346444416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neplatnasmlouva.cz/soubory/32117824033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608054e19b8b9---sitaviwonamefegoxixamafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/zeveke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30665066097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsl-trans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loxiropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d13531d50a---72191007430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786ab7c15f7---ripofedovanizofadimisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5e16ef5b2d3538670ef35b6d34a3e89/gilibeditisopakabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/tozolakenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608473b51004c---likebovanetulododinuwuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da995d51ef2---zatonala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htan5ht10diso3gog78l8ctmk1/38316745442.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_off0000de44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE44 10028 bytes
SHA-256: be50b45f4a00468cdd8d9c37df6a9d8e3e1327398a341366dc0add8dbf225dcd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF487 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C99 16380 bytes
SHA-256: cb8291ada3791aafc3a95439dcea5452987b4eeb78f829a1514c3f17f2467f40