Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd0ecc9e70482a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-07-10 06:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a235e97e92accee4ba0e7dbbe73eaf1d SHA-1: 7ad4957a08bac53ef5f9d90a2cdae8a1be6f67b1 SHA-256: ffd0ecc9e70482a237216dbc58fe890601c357710f7e3d9f96e0a69a1c86102d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites. These linked PDFs likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088da46082f9---wukiwiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94529441409e39dcbc13ac17c9f5a67f/82089111351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/tazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fc6f3185cc358aac5422a7340611a4/53347877235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/65223297166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad829d81c84---41459578303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/726feb14cad6eb8373db276a9adcb9ec/senegebasowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6247a37d3---rozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/79184308496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/mukanavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m51kn97r7con582o58pht9bshp/7739035936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///78393259376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/5978372870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/36764544617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bdfe29f22---39564275166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/84945244380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6726a8391---2854574296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09ca83cd49---82686856163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92297eae1a188dc91bf3b7d8ea34ad2/36830508704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/kanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/wagolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eq5rojrpo53st00skf47mj6dd/69752915542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39e77e184a---pifasisilimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c16747e5de1---32589892495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/16815828869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=to+thumb+one%27s+nosePDF 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_off0000d9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AE 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 858b2dbe600412bd59ef9c36fdd36ba8f2a084f81f49c5f46a8862f604dc59db
font_01_sfnt_off0000f078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF078 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 79b89a3f475d698d8b5ea7f0e39ede3d6dbd9293abb5434d3537df0ed6a23de7
font_02_sfnt_off00011d1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1