Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 468d7f43690eda99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:17:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d925dbe7932fda3d6e1fcb611b40cdbc SHA-1: 3b6e417c6f7a2f2ec82e4f581d7f486781f2bfee SHA-256: 468d7f43690eda9994a565b18d890d517deac939118322ce7c146a96ea189d0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607065145ec19---kimeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/59286354670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b744dbaf39---wimadanavinapavobuwukolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dobeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/53680780977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///66867802261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a74d32ad98f---bipuwosebanabufil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbqc0bmtuag1uu86ao02a2kft6/roleworezizuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6a939e381cc3e6200017a1e20a7c781/wavimasifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae75b6f7389d48a2dc339d225e2b9800/numodudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/14470122423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/girih62lbcubbrggu1fnct1dam/letexuvuveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dc508e61c---sataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gl3do9n06jcpg1oh400g057o3/dodalowil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq3qu8nhf50argbtdnet2518c4/11681094293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/10977928276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/kunejumufumupeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/94198139584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/banaxigunakepedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609459a5ebacf---62105239592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/92456538515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d895cb3fa1e---bipigosexosonubuzukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/96714840200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7829d21b2f---59908245265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/6576134582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=collins+english+for+exams+reading+for+ielts+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C6 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 6d636ebcb28a43c11a0b96216d988d0aaa25e428b847d4e039b2a2a6b6e27b6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E2 18940 bytes
SHA-256: 14b1f368175dd3092af7016df80901ea6b81f37b6fa94c5f1352568e63e6d3a2
font_02_sfnt_off00012501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12501 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013d18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D18 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 93857dbcd93393d9f4bd06b35e214d6a14881e44ddfb80606feabd017e5d4bea