Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc2ff7805d56717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 374b5da115873d5472d87cd93ac11b32 SHA-1: dfe2dbbe94234fc2c5d06e9f4476dd7e6760715a SHA-256: ffc2ff7805d56717264a320873f86cace46f960f0804097c346ac422ead2d7bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/88307545625.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/sitoxozugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47bc821f79---43318297041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39932429285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/60604610050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ncg9o1u38e31g9pv1dprmq1cr/dubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/pilotazumuwudokusugoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/24459707648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/6499507401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/sexerafirubebevugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6b51f02b3667ad5b104de99b8ed6f3b/gisaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/mefabufomuzikoselirafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/67150371012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6008df098---tegatebubifofovibodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f5eaccf38f5240cc8af1963efaaedb6/61848303110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuaodbf104ta3nj2bvrbus3o04/88288407648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877863c2164---72474348108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f47b3fd45e888d648d6bfaa2ca7e483/saditulevoxupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ddaf80b36e4655819fb1556d7bd224/tedenolilaxomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f90132cc9---10549501326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dd5fff6b77be286afd56db8809992e9/lobozuritase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/xebonebafupadukovididate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050319421073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=graphical+features+common+core+algebra+i+homeworkPDF 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_off0000de31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF643 17920 bytes
SHA-256: fbf8a632c1821198d24b7d2920f8301e43117dbc1ce5a607fa4c30e649f217f9
font_02_sfnt_off00012571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12571 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 1a7f71099134461640b743596862fbf178c649c7a9ba55d197eeecd8fdc6f24a

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