Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffcc3ae170521d91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1e2e0462ab0e922c953426a343afc49a SHA-1: a2928b963357baba10089b62ab9e8e5c82e2c17d SHA-256: ffcc3ae170521d9125926578a1134933b90523fdea588180928d36ed34e05e7b
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, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability to execute code. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, which are often used for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests a campaign aimed at obscuring the ultimate destination and evading detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brief+history+of+yoga+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a705e45edfd---votulukudopobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/40505129705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2c37e2e47---89679966512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufavoseza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/27841809316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edf8d14a6072b998138191492cb47b72/99407963526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365df66e552d93ea0b7a6404035c5770/49466343766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e191f887e51d078bed5db23d8da4ab/23179849616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210508151022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/xesodopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084634d6122f---35426313370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/pemimewarefiragore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85e7d07afa---jexezuvarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bu6nloirgga58q3633s8jnuic/65931920841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/38007093657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109060712002615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg7d52d1571h601a2pafvm1vbi/danararirugenejetilogifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078958e30081---6291213995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gute-reise.ru/i/files/files/rodevemekadajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypcalumni.com/clients/2/24/24042806289e0d450134266962f0a0d8/File/63619474676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lesn12u3oq1c45rk27s1isqo57/53192584185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/57201833390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc0e1aa59c---vovozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608570dfbfb3f---7737457798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vojeroninotefojizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/vaxulologuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0624300db4faf35854e0c663a26061f7/50865187260.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_off0000e162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE162 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 66f2126da5347a3d9692adfb4332ef84bb4dd6a3f508330598d0979aa46f4a1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA45 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 75780cbc30b0a53cb806db184977390a44c49b907ccb78a9da5ede06d997d0c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001265a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1265A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1