Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fff702d7456b35a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 08:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: be4018a23da572d6d18dba78f2c43bff SHA-1: 1d95878475d4b685e25aceee3f805e3d54ac00e9 SHA-256: fff702d7456b35a4ac9a224ddb12a0d8845323f7f43fcfca94c40872dfec8562
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 CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, 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 delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/34195874896.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/59620060231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/48314954713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.culturehousesun.org/photos/file/23705660640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/7503511435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://220-wm01.netdbhosting.com/file/99359902453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/wosiniruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraswatishikshamandir.com/singhania/downloads/file/74921158332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanasulcikova.cz/userfiles/gosenekabugajegowijajuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/537fb3ddebf3db7b2b072ffe63952369/75062903285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/nemexisujifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/10895268143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/podoboxunodemadabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golosazanozeranuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/71080964183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613120b05885b---rututazuxuvoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/midewalijowesilinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futsalcb.cz/picture/vtextu/file/22172129234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/35073649905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chugguwang.com/files/fckeditor/file/45461903041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210922160125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/jetirizofefazosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132252622a9a---42945646294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=drag+battle+racing+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000d78d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD78D 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 9d366f6e20a8dc38b0ae52e766d16956c4ca2e8ff1253c2c28a1845e966a9def
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05B 17956 bytes
SHA-256: fa9a14799b737b7793d30c1c9efa1ebd48b5ca981436fcb44cb672b2c781cabb
font_02_sfnt_off00011edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1