Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fffc326370c91a19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:28:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8f6e01e72cb46e5db87d58d2f8b2b56b SHA-1: a441ec6bfe62e65009b8c6804ccd5e4f93955fa5 SHA-256: fffc326370c91a1977d0c8914fe62b311627bb0d692a93009b6e9ac1205ff357
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a raw IP address in one of the URIs further indicates a suspicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://teraval.cz/res/file/26792582994.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e28a49396b---53126606143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/zulefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/82635821787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/19896610810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ng-sons.com/userfiles/file/17698034570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitishahjahanpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37421750286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe88d090b34---kajagefefupuk.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://excellencetogether.com/img/files/file/26811921618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/manatogenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10ddc77a49---gabejekemeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rvhifi.cz/files/file/44503639511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/38792555864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/60023366002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c765abb55---giwure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/22887226287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/24868682538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/besomekovemivaralojimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c75414c833b3152a830603fd8a818873/98156269449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/ziruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d2ed0a285---57418216102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5094f5bfc722610f39344043916b8c82/25262642514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/vejusasofopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=coqueluche+em+pediatria+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_off0000dae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE3 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 7f7ef22ea7acdcfa7e2b599ad50eb3e41495dafbc541d06d9b40ca1a38d0c712
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12251 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 0495055fa2582511b5c2d6490270450ac8f8cea9943046c142a1ac6d22e6e575