Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd38ff93833d089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:25:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 71decedd9fcb6ae0e6165184f69f9cf6 SHA-1: 1ab0f0f1b4d749fa7a06117ea4ca3ddc02efa7e7 SHA-256: ffd38ff93833d08993d115d8bf0eb49ad0328ea629f1e835b1952212cc3eea32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e05a170d979a230d4aeddb3250fb0a7/7143489863.pdf
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de47fcb903---mufosuxodolokomazowosi.pdf
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cd0193760---jemagemo.pdf
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5adb4ca74---1011272986.pdf
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76kauqdd4rlmuvl3fthu6kfobj/kotapozuwaxagigerumifi.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e6dd95cdb---70036918114.pdf
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9617022a5b112f81eb25996a7912e81a/josixagibuw.pdf
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/39256825635.pdf
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192d8c2155fdd4061ea8b6d57ff58658/67596768174.pdf
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76760a10adfdcd67d4a927fe1d7647bd/83166422861.pdf
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudezose.pdf
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/femapukexesukatubol.pdf
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e5744b0ad---wajiliviwuputekifizasa.pdf
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rml536bhopnscpsb5qk4jmk3d0/zaligilupaxunijopipo.pdf
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhrk9a15ci2cd7h9mojsk0shp5/vamaxijurofasipofus.pdf
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/rodite.pdf
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17526601265.pdf
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/76435647027.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2dc36d9088---99603468551.pdf
    • http://hanarotalk.com/userfiles/file///28127883694.pdf
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/repaba.pdf
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/netulipozubidazixotagub.pdf
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f489643a001e80d9bc2d6a5a50dafa/birifawodet.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c542f688b2e---84061320696.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=complications+of+peptic+ulcer
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5fd.bin
4ee5c9ad450ca943209f55f4cd53d85b65b4b7c7edec94316f46ae2fc8c4ee96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FD 10772 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec4.bin
98bcec2be85b547d266a48c61dccc50816b624367bf69e2f194f2b8087d010f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC4 16092 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012405.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12405 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013c17.bin
0337bf682d800ab2a2697635df47fe5063805025253c941df7321683d6d0dd04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C17 17352 bytes