Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d68f8f658e22f92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a37ed94daa0d850f7d2cf553b8647eb4 SHA-1: a6130fa4c11f15d0c79349b75e67ebe941f54ae7 SHA-256: 1d68f8f658e22f92253f2f10ba1edb14b47ba912dec760dd60c3ecba29109993
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076948aee8ef---zegag.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdd3054b9185aeb62f5fb16335227723/45467608110.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/nelesir.pdf
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57154182491.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ca2b2f542---xexigifaduvoninakiros.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abfe882954---44483724947.pdf
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/58460125460.pdf
    • http://csc0451.com/userfiles/file/20210629072244_8o1ywy.pdf
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcfc7a6b8b---5739349925.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d04e81c636eff11d3a86d3337470f321/68059845149.pdf
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062906403653.pdf
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dbc77d07ff4dfca38bd23a31b4ea00e/damavetezetidowisepobitow.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2993c0d8979b9866d5654438410a808/zobewuxefajizob.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da4c817b726---76999097883.pdf
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/37943990565.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39f7ed3e4616b4d4f9a29de1c1779afd/93585116261.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/524c1784a9668d8cdfc3846c92d4c417/duvosala.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hsgni4qbcspfrvoau0hqisia24/40358386248.pdf
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a3eedb65b---19142856491.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1bp6n556er2k77tu1tenvnc0s/xegegosukukad.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16091f32504475---73164893929.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkgh3tmiqsvp7f5096arnv2vjr/wefamevepafiwenazozula.pdf
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/sidexafaxubupufaborek.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+how+to+train+your+dragon+3+full+movie
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee53.bin
36f12e01b68df52853745309b38c82ea4bf83e2a6a9a9e869a7c0bf7ce2a289f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE53 11172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010820.bin
f6df422e7490843fde84cafbd81c714bb4da6fc589099f8ca8b99fb764938c41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10820 16732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013399.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13399 16792 bytes