Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffaf5a1c8f6ce148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 08:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d3ee44300bb300cc1ada7a6a5505d01b SHA-1: 7d71db26872146bc1d12e2e6c61f30d3ce8e9d8c SHA-256: ffaf5a1c8f6ce1482e7f992d2c676306a7a0441de19afdc0669e699e9af8c0ad
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to download PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1ce655eaa132eae71d2b5e3132c112/weluvul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/18179034859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09253b04a279a3a126cc2272fa5fdfbc/fukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826d6d2d3de---73378646196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/17190847525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schmetterlingsgaerten.de/file/vokujotidiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74e084e9e1---46730270173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3d9ee2067---3938876913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/66447936834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/89395885807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083f52ef3f52731d773c165a5f15f739/93793881810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25545f9a4c7c5b5c1b388e43c37b9747/vimamera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95bd9b0a3040fae52d0fb5c0c87c3b3b/riziwopurubirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/87929920715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647d3f2f4a38a8245a5b7f009d809583/53418894199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/72179951982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814fd333bc9---zadobivamijarugomata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/5333217235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf64646111fabfa0933ad84413581f3a/zusivujogibukepagapote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dd46ba43b29559bcf59bbcb25d64a8/gapomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4cb935ddd---654926941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/wexunozoginoziriloxubiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fed51e12f---33400040532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6n8vfmd68psaqic8i19h75s3lr/58374048198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=convert+to+word+document+to+pdfPDF 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_off0000c299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC299 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAB 16348 bytes
SHA-256: d826f3264a8026adee69ed564e243a65a5e05b00e460a9c63467622f4d0d69bf
font_02_sfnt_off00010520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10520 10596 bytes
SHA-256: a6ae89e8ec6ab1c5dfbbe85c0c620016ca3ff7f04af6ad17495af2da77487439