Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffedc9ead03b8aa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:02:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b88f4513ab05d598696713267a1b6323 SHA-1: 67f1ae91231c6875addba7d77b899d19df3b6f3d SHA-256: ffedc9ead03b8aa0f306a7673a1c0984947177988f0e1047e51b54b59f8aad0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of link farms on compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and leverage potentially trusted domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb6c22793c---sabegifusule.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17044902940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/rudado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77064101425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fagilimemobidogejomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbbcc55c8bd42fe0ddaab5aca9a6b0db/ripaminixibuxulori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__612FBFF5D8668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/71091000325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79f850e4750abbdece2fe36be95962f5/43142134265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkdpq5ieg60vkf22g1gu468gsd/21185119873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/82910588927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/xanemetikibelawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/dudifarisepumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fefubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/32739683005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/61140876173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff4e4018fd58e1e827af331e5ef2c153/80948881475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac605d50ad---zajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb54b3741c---jofazubene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa6e8bc963b---50308456776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e73ce5a13ee59a34c27ddfaac7c92f2/kevuledimorolajojevazilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d947dcab---25677279651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91042493571485dd789cd4fc8e9d2b9b/39750170253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/jerejeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3834446065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/senizasiretigawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukysovin.com/img-svc/files/xivimigezisitofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=five+factor+personality+test+pdfPDF 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_off0000db3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3B 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 843f640f3a0d33755ad30361282b909be6c02fbb8b5933d53a3c5263cd3c3a7a
font_01_sfnt_off000106f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F0 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 8dbd16a7bb746a24f22f9f19cdaef5b0930ccd171e45cb86e471e1d2446690df
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1