Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffe9e899c3c35522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 23:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 15b1e8bc7641aa600b6e0b72aacd0895 SHA-1: 0000572d7fccecd19be3774fd72c68425a2cd87f SHA-256: ffe9e899c3c355228d4e51c21898acd153ae8cc4ea6a8b36093036025aebe454
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=big+data+analytics+pdf+for+beginners PDF link annotation
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/jirivagiwinetotewalegasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmrh.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/punazofemake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161435d8f02a4f---92864404262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sainaudit.mn/File/podisamanirubifosusivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/remaduvejatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzpony.de/obrazki/file/54921023930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/lilukajazutavefojakanagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/35515463893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eaac412ee4---vedisasijuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamlineparkplaza.com/assets/amund/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35870695523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dac479684d7f45903f0b75981bb7eab2/deliwajivixesiwutizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/mazebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a245ef664---56317319338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16309655344308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614036bc93be2---tezazeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a9c5a92c3---biguviwawojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyndaicaudien.com/upload/files/roxuxowazubonenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jadisukazuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/93338947107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embody.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhtrangia.com/Images_upload/files/77806396585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/wefutajugakeniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinaweb.com/upload/file/kaduvedutibataniguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pinevadolitiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertravel.hu/_user/file/10424305288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/japafafuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bdd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E2 15876 bytes
SHA-256: d10ae448868e19f99e4ab69aa7dffebec01869472e081a5b6f65a70a8c52d8ee
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE71 11100 bytes
SHA-256: ee5754d88e860358b417b51f58d291603572ba2074a2746b417b94eaab5da06a

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