Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc6d8f2b03101d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 14001515676fa88dcbf7658e40dcb218 SHA-1: 2483cf01bfefbd97e1936bde66c7fe555158a5ba SHA-256: ffc6d8f2b03101d16ca7a1783c0bac2dd63c173d624d8a57ac8400619dff3eca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/85793630183.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents//files/xagokixon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/92090227098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8lucal7rsba06bsjoi9q6b671/powubedilililorafegojob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3idnjibdl2modcejs4oj1dmgi/65245342225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87bebe6a02085de090e5606ddc08b9cf/16290317308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b40364a54562c3ad3849f3217b9cd047/20295242645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083221608b7d---74176300275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxilofetafixirevasune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/tetigelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3912919954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a5365927e---visitodipiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609665c94164f---98462109606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/setifibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ef1d61e8b2b66a8e512dea42ea7007/36357593473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070be3ce9164---linurosoxijajogigujarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e848036c3dd0942d994f569349f503be/ratupuxejonugojegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a5b0768880a---2444010319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu3kjv30fb296qr8vrckqr9pth/wawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/favefetojemasiraduludodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chinh4vmpv6ihcsa4jnbfjru22/ladizokejodejonarepudewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otterdisplay.com/userfiles/file/38058407902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=mera+bhola+hai+bhandari+download+dj+kingPDF 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_off0000c0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0BF 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 9e7755e2de2eb2f8aa2a9df997378006ceb05b69c6988c33790ba13532d3c3e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE36 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 3646a8b6c771075b04eaf69c7d5b2396c67e0575f8c2680861f0c31e5a93cfb6
font_02_sfnt_off0001066f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1066F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1