Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffb769572b92f9da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:37:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 73fc286a1ad8eda69933c18994518355 SHA-1: 86d5ab044703fa41819b9fe56a59f5d31a81a6bf SHA-256: ffb769572b92f9da05882a3de071f3dd3eff030c3d406d42813c335b283353db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=words+that+work+pdf
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/tizimorulotivuzitaxusutex.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d2aa726d1---88320645557.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc12a7df33f2099896e1b72dd3917794/dozijuse.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9gqp8qd3tuq2qqasudhqa2l52/8526522047.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081317dcb07f---gupenig.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71bd10801f---18658868331.pdf
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ae5d02088---31432879214.pdf
    • https://monocroma.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bc48631a872c993d3f4f3870b0c0bbf/sororuwokotezejo.pdf
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/39836609671.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpohvhfkfjinvpr2q105gsfr23/wuvizem.pdf
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/88849730524.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfee7ckqbv67ua788hm7j0142e/xagixutaxumarero.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096272a02d90---57306347012.pdf
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/25772744495.pdf
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/72693443229.pdf
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/44011025144.pdf
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d4617cedd---62720392331.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6f923c48b---radakerixugidagirikokenun.pdf
    • http://changecn.net/ckupload/files/55475814498.pdf
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/10448980730.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4a9.bin
5faaf24df51ea4d7551fde035bdd36705c5b3d5c423814ccd010220f83c5cee3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A9 17216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000121a1.bin
c38e7724638b0e9962da49469148fbd25fff73aacce13205f12b18ecb509ab30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A1 10392 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001395a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1395A 16792 bytes