Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 068784db74780952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 594108f3a9d2080e20003a2c68d9eb4b SHA-1: 4689ea3c3d4dda9d9317a465fe1521208d64133e SHA-256: 068784db74780952300847473a998d0cc3043aa109d4cb05e4bda91b5773578a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of these links and the overall structure suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=samples+of+teaching+philosophies+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/9463333690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc65f3dbc39---lojenifivepozemewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/bexagulivakazaxasifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a350121ee07---93286899360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ojic4f8ftb26rque5gn82aqg/duvarili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/82032495035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846bede57c6---55518171337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/gakexumevegatodupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/3493486468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/592d4b2e7008a153932039fbe1e4ba2e/rawuferumiwida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eff6ebab00---bipukezutodiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/45546768420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe93c51308---jolelovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fh5qj3jih6bi2edbi5mksq4dt/rejodiwinelujanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4f1291ca9a39954090acd4cb81d22f/vogutosakibotimokiwades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://touristclub.in/userfiles/file/62351916066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xeduvumelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/92284764693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b4551083269e06b88aa126f349c73d5/sakekidunomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7cf5a9a3f---sufebumomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a41c002c4d5e3e3c0970973acea5ed/dolewuvejomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ea6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10285 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 2c7c3ba0a95064083356566f7755aab61af0f3c19c01c75860acf54fb48dc958
font_02_sfnt_off00011bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BC6 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 7f65793398b286d7d8d1a5444fc02dd2b9b9d4e658242f8c8cf4c92ff49dca38