Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 068cb4991b8d6e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:32:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 591d6767a3e6d2cc2abcbee54592e21c SHA-1: e1d8a77c27135300d94326f2af339f80fc261454 SHA-256: 068cb4991b8d6e97d6433a12e3a63102ff05a30dd498ccaafa3844aaa45549be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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 http://opgzvh.hr/upload/file/fezabe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed405a105---tiboluzamasekotidisuraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a40217cbc48a76be5e0f3c88ab9bcd80/miwalelamuselerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92012692027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/ruvapusevetaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/xidigolidenakotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/98328207421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/xatenokosunoxiduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmji4sea4fhgrk35u65islkso0/24891386940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/nukakobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/goxabuzuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/17294693380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607015200dcd2---tujadifadufude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33985502172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/28652400098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741f0f4d166---jokevegadisifejakikado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607199600e203---sinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32438905232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/vupugedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scan3dsaigon.com/upload/files/fogawodofazosirixane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b2b7c77ed---wozipekexego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioboscono.it/userfiles/files/89075040602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba023d9b9d0---64451478323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd336bbfbdb1884fdb954b2f1ca6fa9/36924060239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eee5d4d0ecf451a4a8f4e4bf8c83848/35787315712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/30216856512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=operant+conditioning+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off00010c69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12480 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 8c3e3d431d4d979f74f50cb4a2b76c688376c90e91974c6eefc57bfcff3c6924
font_02_sfnt_off00013dbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBD 19528 bytes
SHA-256: 361a6f451b982a9f1445777cc2506070bc48ffa8435934ab9ff5858e27ddc534