Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 141679cfde0dcce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:32:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9586376007655091e3fb39e09cc70d2b SHA-1: d9dd49b10b6eaa5dea1d8a902a2b2c5145c25a18 SHA-256: 141679cfde0dcce9647f310401d0ab993172ce3a5ee190848228aab619c07cf8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. This technique is often used to obscure the final malicious destination or to distribute malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these compromised hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083732db9a0f---21336456056.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/5803436368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160891dd7cd6d6---25407644586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520195349214008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1i9usdetb9oqvrqia9vvb2dta0/wimivuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dd8da9fe8---kufifonimobupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9ecddfa4c---25637856194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/poxutepobujawaguviratat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/powef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ecde2d1ef87bae0eac02c3ae69ce13/83284008175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budohurtsa.pl/userfiles/file/bijexebinowogekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37fd8956c4c31fbe4765f14fb7d3428b/13462249200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/godixisutuvumexuronaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/tugisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/vajegoniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/dizitedofasasoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8be6c5d061---97745635335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/ratudupibuxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/6737576542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/wixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23bf388dacef7bd690ad5477a3eac7d/2304877299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780cd7525cb8cfaceea77da146016246/tejifujiwonotudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/1395798292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g9io73le1skodc9ah5kvj1ve0/23176424710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/24578728738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cross+aldol+condensation+between+ethanal+and+propanalPDF 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_off0000c103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC103 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d915.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD915 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 6c5d1cdbf2fd596886e79d151f55a04351bf0d455d6884ebb4745353f10c0e5b
font_02_sfnt_off00010633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10633 10868 bytes
SHA-256: f5116e227dca4a504c3ddac26388eaa7f73677d0f89207f2aa8a6b16b5ce0e94