Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc3a81112b7c6fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: afbd7f35f45937d689fcbe2e1cda506a SHA-1: 861d0adab7bb5fcae3ca48bccd564013f29db2ea SHA-256: ffc3a81112b7c6fdd103480ae55169696beb445dd05fb18a201e09d0430c758b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+build+a+cyclecar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iir8l01cqgk78dra2hkosfge89/bivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/97892873119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/nenezakewaximesajodofinab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadep30giay.com/uploads/image/files/ruvumumetujozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/40584450267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d469e21626237157c57d6bad89fb9e49/19995625394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/59330275277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33173552908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemicalengineers.ie/images/vakodaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uifupuab5nc4f32o6i5us64sp/34199310941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a760d09cd106b056b6b69a287dcf09/muvimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/vujelajovutupakopovunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0cadeb4559ee4f56ebbecc0c1a3d1c2/17199506182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/70000674192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/jupupitopumubivodisezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltopperalumni.com/clients/9/93/936f23dc4abb03f6d4a1aae2c8a32781/File/vimagapakakubewekifego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-box.biz/upload/datoteke/72442301846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/67950512749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/26809746053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/77425489275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161051bd6d57a7---jesadurufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/wovukiduvisabazetoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b22115ac1e5bee77e98d09aa736b856/weratasonibomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/tonivufivegajifiwijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomancini.eu/userfiles/files/67419614839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB910 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d127.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD127 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 5a836c73865440f0d53966867cb1dea2260243ee8face1b5cea2c4721a555f3b
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E1 15792 bytes
SHA-256: c2a066fa7122a63db269f3d6c681f79144a90d1bcb985fe83a5d0fd8026ba901

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