Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd6bede71a01f52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1aae035da538fed72ab8ffa61e2a2ca6 SHA-1: 077916af19e424e3aac7ce5313974bb32ac1b834 SHA-256: ffd6bede71a01f528daad140dfd7ecf4ee9f0e7e8113226421e80beca8c936fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This suggests a link farm attack pattern designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

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://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835989cc5f7---tevowapesajenedulu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/135150fa764bcef763d1d8f9df848060/77981257679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7997a1bbbed13168f9837955fced3f/85923485039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/69216570562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb7412cd9d67fae8a09fdd2b1ef9388/98990699713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/92541662762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bc02e880dcfcafb08f488b6b8fcb1b8/tubiligejibisuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081515106e1b---jolunufibomizejotoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc3be79e6c---putokigowogizapexerimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/subiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o3cb1vtj4ai57b8p8cod9gp2mj/wegubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/202164108293392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d49e573a61---45920884066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbdbcc30cf---zasovumivavutigina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/set3a36kdusrdert7f55f4qsni/lafexopasote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021060317505540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-go.org/files/tesejatumegavavaxidajevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/micm6c617ke873lt6kgk8ij77l/zuvisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90h1vvomc7p6bkr81l4rq951km/39900301759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/xurasawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dojexasoserowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7d5c0md1maos3fa7ou5484lq5/35109118623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/fologomopisiparoronasemup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/povuzupeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ocean+trivia+and+answersPDF 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_off0000ff11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11723 17960 bytes
SHA-256: df96b90545a428443e12c842e7c1917adbc5aac0f86e1ccfd0ab6fd3028a3a0d
font_02_sfnt_off00014689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14689 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 54a24b74c5d251af642b13d1a2ad74fe114417a560949876928035e317df657b