Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd53b27a025fb2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:43:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b57fee846505320846f92213267389f0 SHA-1: f7147ce608e99de401cd86bb86533664433ba3db SHA-256: ffd53b27a025fb2ca3e28b40b3f80bf80838f245cedfaa371bf82dcf8e4f8fe8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=full+marks+guide+class+9+tamil+pdf+free+download
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608517bd899a1---kofakekuwipanorujigi.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/600b9jpmekatd5bi98ftqkctqi/bejafijiguzubekeza.pdf
    • https://protradingindia.net/userfiles/file/89053081533.pdf
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c75e153f8---zaxaruja.pdf
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/44665071275.pdf
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cf69e4cd97dbed45ce31a0693aa5cd/52245614600.pdf
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/44694825694.pdf
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/liwif.pdf
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/rebipeb.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5shqomf2p5g2p50mn0sgpqlk1/fufodu.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bv757jafc5scs2gn596f2cfd8u/21753249405.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hg5og777t2e6obeo4vp5dc860/66883561187.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b2ddb60a4---5606711791.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7dd80a617---27956470677.pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001768e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1768E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018ea5.bin
d09c57fbcdf455d3a75ed03b9337e093e540fecbb7a91c3f8b39ce851bafa60c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18EA5 11388 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a94d.bin
5eb5a2e3bea982ad977ec9525ed48e9911758def055ddd7e5386319362f56351
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A94D 15868 bytes