Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 671260e3968e6179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dcd0d5fae90f78d7e9f43b7846e1b8d9 SHA-1: 20f87d8a103326b44d9350ac206b185ce9b07819 SHA-256: 671260e3968e6179c23e5a223f8140a2e116b4ebda38ab07b5d710aa17afabcd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/59683368969.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f88fb163f---4250901055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/79650820410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53521756f3ebf078c22873918952f2ce/pixojaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a20172596122f73e0abcbdd9feaecd6f/silixibokomixogodalenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d3b4ab452e0e3c072cfa7cf4634bbe/49279924344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c4b119522---73897230446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/48808428384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab8kr763mgipitbajv8ck4261/walipusefabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexaroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e48425bce2---2442693674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/25584968392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arichaindia.com/userfiles/file/repogogaxinazujiwekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wakewisesuziredetatudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cca651d5b9209f5095cc5571bc2af28/21155024930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/jobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/6582669693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be1ce828e9---29381382841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d23df61b222f57e167791dc3c7d6c2ca/56435767353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ercfkc5b14qtc83kca64lh3vdc/jiromuwatofifiguzileroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d7d288dff---bopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jechtinger-wein.com/jechtingen/files/luxizoxexadijepomeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/16168104581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608549b996ab7---rifabelapajebixurezefafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba0149cab1---xunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780e998832a---zijukozijugodanodegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hybridization+of+s+and+p+orbitalsPDF 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_off0000ec30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC30 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 91f5320e55b88ac0d7905133ca62644b35bfde4ff34ccb32de0304e7ac548b75
font_01_sfnt_off0001047c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047C 16700 bytes
SHA-256: a03c94bb096540fdd98bdf25457791364157ed8928957bd46a0f7eba4d557dee
font_02_sfnt_off00012ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1