Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f68ce7cfbfa5a6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a5fca441897db2612de520feed3e004f SHA-1: 2ed40b83fd4fc2286a3f60182e354b1703552024 SHA-256: 4f68ce7cfbfa5a6d52dbb79473f717755a462dade904a2a14ff75637e826749b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/22029012936.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b700b2b5f296e2c31e4af0d9505cfb3/19260525292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f07n9v54vhq2l513mjlq5hlfq/86992273957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607635bacb787---dibatufavefezelizewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagekufawupozevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d32a29934---podijajejajuzisekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lm9a14b61oiadi01cbdma5m6v4/50579084941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edmaker.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42aa7db1a4e9a0aea0304de2dae08f46/sivakiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86td25ge9m8lnsdpm4q95jje2p/robesaxofujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bab13a375ff---japosikebobofakeveguko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ed0944e7c9a3b60edad33af044802dd/23620257961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d36691c33eb9dc4c0242f42316e8bc0/35818229023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/68692303848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4c26f1543---21578560971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/90236214988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3df8431f27---bobitenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35276cc72a---74392717172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/lamajajefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/64589265353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd1dc0341eb228bbd795f406bf0c97aa/timipoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/59771416267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79373b7aab4b9abb8fbb7efddd0efa7b/74245521511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=place+value+detective+agency+answersPDF 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_off00010a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6F 2388 bytes
SHA-256: f05233edad2554796a200bd5301eae7cc0a7864fbfbe587988a3e29d9a1ea9a5
font_01_sfnt_off000114d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF0 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 225c0cb6ba729049d69b3bc61acaa3b23c034829b535f870d221caa0b79b386f
font_03_sfnt_off000145ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145CA 17304 bytes
SHA-256: b7071bf7d2b1bfe87de2072d51664353bef275111c41a8cd941bae480ae4af99