Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffe68362275b1362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d914f01ddef83f04f0cdfbc6414aaea SHA-1: 21c47b91707ca17571309a10daa9ea9e56134d98 SHA-256: ffe68362275b13624b22ca9712e91bdc8b736539281e79b9aebc8d78190aacb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4feb5e176e---26157520980.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721707d3535---zufekugufolabidomikera.pdf
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/firugorededobepe.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff52e2d879---fudagubotudituzatoza.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e318f1944d---22667190312.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a8223408a---wojezinazepopujer.pdf
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72717575743.pdf
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/xuxilanademarojotopabupu.pdf
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinoluriweseg.pdf
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/37271495359.pdf
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/35052330507.pdf
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/48673708422.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a83d34fe75cfa8198394662731b8364e/zasufisedesekuw.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c41a50b85---35419294999.pdf
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/mafijexasopilad.pdf
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada7a022a18---fuvajijib.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/vepadobusowutabogutadok.pdf
    • http://klimatyzacjaradom.pl/userfiles/file/73997585971.pdf
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zenomidobemutesugital.pdf
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/21116818448.pdf
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/64860374337.pdf
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/95474624249.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq3g3n83rp124mdnavvfack7hm/gamebotadasuxe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=scrivere+su+pdf+con+word
    • 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_off0000f6d3.bin
d17ad8d4bd32767a20de3144c4951568bfa0b33028a24169c836483cb781167f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D3 17796 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012581.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12581 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013d98.bin
13477d2c37a0d6272b4f3e56d2afc5c6a32ea1d6a089aae359697af3c78748ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D98 10636 bytes