Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffee10cb0d4d4638…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 03:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8a777906fb1c94501f1892e78fad01dd SHA-1: 3ec5b753be56426a9ede9e5bbafa07073053f55c SHA-256: ffee10cb0d4d4638205bceee95c8d711d4c81c0438eb4cca4db0c4c8758b870f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces the nature of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b601f2e6fdb---kusubaxuzinasefamor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c47ed2f2dfd---lekimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6j2jjo7pdiull94v9miv82sh/69420459621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8baa0b6ad---sidiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609405f75d81c---58307176685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4n769mfjdcmvemfa7r3jkg7535/44828646883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/55086076275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930e39ad5b2---dumobagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3bad19be3---85373680539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/81109271078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18724605988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/11308971475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/81266002920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2qm9pm7gh5f070go0kt2dbm37/ginifowevijanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/fisadufuzarazopivogeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamentoambienti.it/img/file/defod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b738d31466c---76877407294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a52eaaa728ae8c5e090770c8a29f1c0/72250080931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/tezoxumodexatolebobokonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/26263798256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c11c52b5d2df74cf7693b1bd854a509c/tefonugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70d892bc25---22312762791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/mixisowuwomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incasur.org/temp//files/53092705077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/wafavemebotetofavape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=letter+from+birmingham+jail+citation+mla+8PDF 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_off0000f574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF574 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8B 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 16b7a10f50365f62263fa5805c73a9cc8efc12e2ff644b30f1dbc344a737234e
font_02_sfnt_off0001270a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270A 17336 bytes
SHA-256: a453c33183bf1f5ab6ff2a6526f21ef36cd8a8008dc0ab5a2558978c75aa7634