Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6628dbf703733789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-06-17 10:14:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2b25360c76eac25ef6da6ab1f0d1f073 SHA-1: 5c9560c85c19cc3174143387e895e68d13da1c95 SHA-256: 6628dbf7037337892b631d821a16fc40ecc6e174a580637eb946a4804a05f82c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content or redirect users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to CPU models, likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=4790k+vs+8700k PDF link annotation
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/38528716633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/terinigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2401529c40---logafedafanogufizexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9123bbf7358e2cc8d1d0f801b3aeca4a/90871018091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/55470813021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a9b6d5cad---pobimatizagexedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f00c6b88edf95ceeda4c9505c81411/54841964265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bc5871b9c---75447137177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00d31f334969d20a2be721bd458e3b50/fawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62197220468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/wekafefiponina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/og2k4r056kg4j4s858g00n3nr7/tizuzeregumopepidozasine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607689c65a237---rewiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/63454091495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a148a75c2a---20323948336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/zedeberapaxotifelilepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF585 5028 bytes
SHA-256: 8aa576d44460c46c375f7b7473fa6a71c5252e3cca7163e5c94996513a9fae14
font_01_sfnt_off000106ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CA 11932 bytes
SHA-256: 76fd390b6684b6a9fbaafeb9354b2901f1d9bcee93f8844387c0cd7982d03492