Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffdb57682bf09511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:00:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 90749aac629d36b13f28306769d8ea89 SHA-1: df3f97376ca563a208aa8148341f7eeab8d29ef5 SHA-256: ffdb57682bf095117680214ede61524de8da07fe7ef46fc55deb354ad2ec0288
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5fd75c6b5---tivugetivopusosoruwuvaj.pdf
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/jokubewivope.pdf
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/14307274342.pdf
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/85025875817.pdf
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/16476916502.pdf
    • https://anna-bel.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/12490135052.pdf
    • http://skalamatbaa.com/userfiles/file/vugap.pdf
    • https://allcondosales.rodeodrivecondosale.com/userfiles/files/69302894654.pdf
    • https://rosanaalvarracin.com/userfiles/file/32782349572.pdf
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/wepor.pdf
    • http://yas-center.ru/userfiles/file/75402739578.pdf
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/73083542210.pdf
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/16594730351.pdf
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezizaxavusukakazasuzidas.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/wiwekile.pdf
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/fopoxefudajugazef.pdf
    • https://hockeymro.ca/docs/file/79209681301.pdf
    • https://planningpvedh.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mukopiloruxizukaga.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a1f85ca3f6ca32ed928d2c14ae3434/66897258358.pdf
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/93318262849.pdf
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/61843109023.pdf
    • https://dsverano.com/UserFiles/File/tenikitogofuk.pdf
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/73213504073.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=karp+cell+biology+8th+edition+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_off0000da67.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA67 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f279.bin
99c2669aa359d0c6af2a6ac852809dfd8c216a677afd4e810d6ee5ccc852c474
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF279 18008 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001210c.bin
50fff6b4ab92f51927631dc16cca6c4b368043d697f04ec28f70b76ee3dea282
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210C 11184 bytes