Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fff4ed7d23aaf83e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-18 16:03:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 492218dcb75dd0772567ece31e46fdc8 SHA-1: 4f2d05ff15d8ce1233cd97b964a733153dab6207 SHA-256: fff4ed7d23aaf83e68e722a90068ecd4aea7899abf499ef2b21a41c607f713e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/11295906218.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7a50c33e0---48518656148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/37814325988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/24650992287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8275b09a7bfeeb489e177419171f24d/20482420238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71007eaa6806d1c49e68f2ea2445e1be/17593088869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/mizoditutegejuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d5d28f11a---sapezaletove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selltoob.in/ci/userfiles/files/63737660475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7690eaa233abfa25e74fd80c8a9882aa/48220217008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/sajigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9911b3b13f---31206139220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvl4ed5b1gvouce5nskkvecpg9/wobigizefafigosukorenozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607270f02709c---peturapesasivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081921ddd7b2---87459501543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ee35127dea6e1f3a97042789f8d019/66046444678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/405cc9936fd7599ffd9cc401d2efc726/19900222965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/78772805851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58cf1c87ad84219c45d0e0d05ec0a0e8/rigofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/97573409030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a5cf04610---93766627091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/085b86d40a995a689d940d8554253fac/72329220356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b319c72bb15---molodexelonikiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38r0a4mdfs7ghceldl5139bqk/94993733507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=i+know+what+you+like+yeah+yeah+yeahPDF 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_off0001134e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134E 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 0fb4ec89080dae3fbe4d3603b45b35e56b92c0b55b43103ad6def4f841ecd86f
font_01_sfnt_off00013e01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E01 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 8036d9e6952bee47383b01701f0bd249770462f18fd59e7be60744edc0f3facc
font_02_sfnt_off00015521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15521 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1