Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 168c7a7a9ac1b892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b45b3719287c9b9f3ffe5ba83746e5cc SHA-1: a0935c934c970e45c4d148b267c978ea16074946 SHA-256: 168c7a7a9ac1b892dc23062fb677daf391bec1efec6692889b4913b938c7f7d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+giving+tree+by+shel+silverstein+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/16689980818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/71075374028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/92278619226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutararakukerifisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a6e2db340be9bed83aa27b9f030ff3/1950919312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f309b0886222df10c3201ed1698538b3/karusus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fa009624586ad7981d6a0bfbd866d8d/12945047536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/rubuwaxozisoludarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbiosa.eu/static/cfiles/files/11531961096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f88404eeaa58e92ca10f446581587ed/lugobivuruvolopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://produccionesproezas.com/clients/2/28/28ea8f13eb032e89cab2838ec144e7af/File/dovikufajetenilurimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2406b3b163d4b97e72976f29d87efc7/fisenubawowuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/xuloloxuzeleton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomdythai.com/userfiles/files/35487059655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2fde57e1531582bd56f7a716c69d52d/68031032358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c4c4379281---77230415575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/tovamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djpress.pl/Image/files/67127153356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/4952895605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/5821936331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/sexefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab06cd682d---38441740805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4887afba3179bd98472d6641322f640e/gobekipuwugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/06/06/file/20210606_093825_113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/1588601738.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_off00010385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10385 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9C 10780 bytes
SHA-256: c300f7c98dcb72ccfd4e1d42763111c4efd9de7213d2d6b99aa0d83670954b14
font_02_sfnt_off000133ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133ED 18576 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce4a4404bfe50f491c1406c741430813dfecd0fc5ce3926a5665d2ffed02179