Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd1cbc145f82b1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 18:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4d08891ae908aed86d06c4d5eac5b17b SHA-1: 31aa0e8af56bbd3d2a802d752142f3369b258bb8 SHA-256: ffd1cbc145f82b1bef9518fec197af301187c90c99b2f71909a90ad2e79a4bb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of formcraft/super-forms upload directories suggest a coordinated effort to host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce965bb8a0c---rajamivulekabivo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b08d42f8f61b4203e4611252fa4c0983/99917129032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/8724339051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tb206v9uf86vp08fmuchbk9ug/88994224288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/24654092547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/822khnenkptf7bvfi4nobm6oml/sebojofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/32049802035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19be3739a9f929e29feddcb70f454857/labovozilutazodaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a35c80e595---penalorigifipuxujukivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210628_C33F555FD8022D9A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/55697307290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6113bc787b1191501a5a03b4c929883a/90577109059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c76ed8ee6---tibejatavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082723530b3c---xemezuwizepivamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bd204ebfa---vazezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/bokeluseregepuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jk2jsb7qntchfe4huuerm3lg0t/kimikosigazijekujutugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drkcm4tftk8p3im7l46l66brj2/dosekobebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/katunizojiluzaxiwine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/76537671100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eingangrad.ch/userfiles/files/jomenaxasimuzelokiviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/54334694723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f798cb7a20---59583967332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9307d63bbf---3830258067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/94599476986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=single+best+answer+questionsPDF 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_off0000fe2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11645 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 79a9a219b7e5c7bcdc144e42eae01523dc252460af3b9564a22302aba6afb93d
font_02_sfnt_off00012f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F20 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 8c63693d8c74ac208e677d3d91899462dcb32e03ae533ed88e0a691fa3cfb982