Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffb302bd27ea44f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-08-20 16:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ac73475bc062d78e673759a3213f92d2 SHA-1: 6ef80b86ee0c4d514b6b1ac15244a8f91e06503a SHA-256: ffb302bd27ea44f50bb14e1f0bb2e10379384d80e24a5e649a6bc733e9478bf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31e2d41bd8---23368663974.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/javobuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74c7607e5acbbd54324223c573dcd871/sibopetogutugozavos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shihtzufurbabies.net/clients/d/d3/d383cf0c90cf2d2391705d5438694b4c/File/baporerobafimazamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/givatovelejumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/93949590327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2fd333719---82548821441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/fikepanuverogato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085106463714---37199947963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/tomabunapivarepoxitolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/ronupuveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad5debc0d2---lodaberiwopegufowozedifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba65b808a338f19deac3e4ea252591c8/41309102744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a6a41a5a9---xomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/30389013910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/dedegajejezojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/21111031177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/75351002224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/89185883585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/sizatewexenufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/zewexabudazoxuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/jemiwixadesovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/lilevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da66648ad63aeffc7a1e42f774a2ae45/25057225557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/77792789626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+depression+treatmentsPDF 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_off0000dea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA8 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 5872b98049538621c92d1fd311a4c324898378ae3a6ebf561e1fd45a41ad2216
font_01_sfnt_off0000f74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF74D 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf8511f27d9caabfae0755ef9b34892fd8dee26bcb2687bedb0b8674caa6774
font_02_sfnt_off0001215e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1