Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 468c072e0d70ed3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:56:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2c6a925bc5ff79cc26f41f819ea486a4 SHA-1: a7a8ff47bc9d19d80089b7a3f8bbc82e45c65ef3 SHA-256: 468c072e0d70ed3c886415e10db4f89ae4f785755dcc22097a594f77d84a28bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to a tactic of leveraging potentially vulnerable or compromised web infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/mukimukipesuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f830bd7d3---3838388130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b560c438708---9652001538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65b460aa01---5395069156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd488aa9e7d89e72eb34a174c786066d/mepimekolabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faf81739be---78428016902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f1a1a3c1c87e95afd88ce6186485b30/buxesug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf15793aa4---lawenozuludibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scalper.ir/data/files/file/josokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b4bc44e03---gadiwivofirisasozumisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eaf8b93ca---bepuwevodotebabedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc9851ad09---jajivimikinejaxafamazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1326add2ef49ed74d4cb6948812460c6/21866881513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/6325022743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graham1978.com/clients/79565/File/40797036775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/zogutozezodutakebesajup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/mavekidife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8409e536ccf591aaf458b5ca07c1a262/4635030343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094724b4b58a---80002230340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/97694943296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ok1b9ulabqdldsle9o0h0pt1/pizoxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yorktownhs1987.com/clients/57482/File/15099544874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e4fed1c53---99247341641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/71304975002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/39529649927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=unique+names+game+characterPDF 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_off0000e93d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93D 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef272b3c1c49f90ae5a237b9402ee215170c2ad179b7d30f903b1dfc47a8254
font_01_sfnt_off0001171a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1171A 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 9cc674b20ff76652fafc446e6184426c72e04f7c9b5cd8f1c94595837e0d01d6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1