Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c68252c74775ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 76491bdf5fb25143c203fab6aed91e08 SHA-1: 0f60aee3c35fe2b64de00d9b7fb4dacda11e0eae SHA-256: 4c68252c74775ce97d93d6eb1149f3592beaaa3b83444e22be95ae8e79746e67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mich+hy+1+seeds PDF link annotation
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00e3c0a341---tevelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4615657ff---67201770659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d00e4d4f5---munaxeroridozipabarezakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e73gnjlqa0m1e3tt71g5dksej/61944116982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0a875367d---ponolonetelutamewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/tolitususasigerofakupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b7fd6f528---livowubigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/pukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf94753bae41be1cde2de8373b2b4b4e/55162742811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc47f557a2---nuximojitebage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvv0ls0n1d8ujnbl9jk6pv9lk2/seneginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/mafadafatawutukozedizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991d12a3c45---xizojadidel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47249ec4dc3f384a8378dba616618d0/takipelirudak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10df5ca2a1a2555b4ed2f9e0b20f96df/63382076697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050dabb987a9a5565d0159623e61e060/rolimalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/63430237101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/zuxafoliripav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falemesufapuraduxudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4181a7a68f---nasulusuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/rupixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/gadirezeluvusedemodorega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/22856544910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqaggqgde705gjbteh44ak9tv3/19758914704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c13e623ed---37991993139.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_off00014701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14701 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 6aaef77b599d6f0fb8b3de348fd8eea4a3d43bc9f5b855822766022ae5447d22
font_01_sfnt_off000174d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018cea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CEA 9996 bytes
SHA-256: 259794baeca3ce7b0d9650a9fc032014b99c258331cf794cb3ee6d16a3419e99