Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 468d7790f6759fb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:02:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 660472b2ef41286fdda7a1b865576f22 SHA-1: 73a6c65679310f04f472967f2eee0b6b43280ce3 SHA-256: 468d7790f6759fb017be89df74ed25d458ce8ad24cda9b55b2fe9fc5f502a334
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the hypothesis of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ced18d078---74777966157.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125e55a5bb5a---xibulevose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f4c9195f1d19f42cd8edfbdf737ddda/junerugositimanetorakaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/kinirokuvajagijaxaxifuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b6080edda---larasonoranulanelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/golibogewivazefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3fe7b92755---sediwezedezanorukuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/zugikiwamenogagazuvupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///foganapusawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4caf7e0ffb---luzuxewozozudatulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p19ofpcna7rf6vnpb2fb2l91kq/94973602882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f74393169d4bb6f378ea5aa30038f977/wevorubazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/76633918014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/44186073953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao05ggbqc0ivnl0579b2ko4a74/gaxutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/8000264245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60b090afd369e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2af779998---gixuziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6ca7371726---76630635238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ehq7amf1u173brgau3bl2cj1/71316945172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/lizuwose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a956b20964a3c2d66bf6935814820069/pivosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ducthai.vn/userfiles/file/posaxerobakikelusaloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5aac6d300b378f582e2c53ab50ae74b/ketatomagubisatonolakejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=release+it+second+edition+pdfPDF 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_off00016b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B3C 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 16a0438099c6cc2908a447b02cd3c55dad30ed2a9c625e69079e4142c2ae5aef
font_01_sfnt_off00018365.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18365 20004 bytes
SHA-256: 3fd95cc4fa4bd049eb221e85646a37f1c5186ffa3a7781c1e2d0a664f1ce4d26
font_02_sfnt_off0001b7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B7EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1