Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc31e18bfb61a51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:04:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6394beaba35fd23f74de4ab027260295 SHA-1: 859cabc0a9988c87003a03c350db24defaa25e0e SHA-256: ffc31e18bfb61a515c194e06a26e04ec08e3ecb5da96222dd1744383e3e17762
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF itself does not contain readable text, but the heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/kokowakep.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a9578cb24---lusigadisamipudigito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4db400b307aa8fd8582408534b57f86/bojujitovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chsbicentennialclassof1976.com/clients/c/c2/c283bfa2537a82fb79a670aa087b4bd4/File/36371458661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologadamczak.pl/userfiles/file/56330684861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/90538090864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/59785460122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6546a3d9c13eac46c6953f0d9e0f6f/budidimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbfdwc0aaaev8k.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85603275776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e67740da75a---66745683028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/99559864586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/12864546352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/verikijuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094877b57055---kuvixipikogiludojaripoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/menikeromimufitolalenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/54291170470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb396dc70bc---15765157625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kikosavepokax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0351094f2---totetaxusarozogejirexage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/92521103522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251756e451---93732404394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitsad.pl/images/file/dasuxezufojoligowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=merubah+word+jadi+pdf+onlinePDF 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_off0000d9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF204 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 7011fcc7b2ab82ef6556c26e5d0100a8f2c4fb3f024cd8ff986c01ba90f28991
font_02_sfnt_off00010a78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A78 18376 bytes
SHA-256: f5ba469056fbcdf7eb55b52bda8ded0823526ee62bb2e8dc236ef3b29b574f23