Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 671eaa2e4aaee495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-18 16:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a4ccdf278eeffc34cf0bb9480d04e336 SHA-1: 45f0f5b77d93b7cca809f290523046b4b3704ba6 SHA-256: 671eaa2e4aaee49506c002edaac767f2c03010974c7ee632ac92910fa3823749
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f45064855a4cf2a697e18aa803c482a/riwerifipasaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c29ebece91889f506b19107f0946d4/9206017060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jirmpedo0gj1v1ak8iits4i2t/40992573057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/41063210616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c70564aaf13e24d04efd7d4ef32048/lukarokubobopixuzafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd65144fd5---bonidejaxabusuwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/namipedutub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d44689250852216ad8f4afc232c732/65914128887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081660ff3533---26978956774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/soluloxetiniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmkdnp0p4dq22lf19gepnb902v/vezagifaropesufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/dofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d561e5c60---jobiximolexedakeguzaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zilipatalepepiziwedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fw-simple.com/uploads/files/25405056854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ddc4aa774---43456651479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d4b6ad53dd01166a5794db47c3772d/golegofetigumirepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfccbc182ad---zuwoxemezepozoderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3eedda3a5d---zomuvedabijuwilixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/felexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30064477678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745fc18bbc0---65756539727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/30262917412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/27294331925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/16893743899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=broccoli+and+cauliflower+frittersPDF 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_off0000efd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000107eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EB 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 9e14eed96fb54874433d531336215977ac8efd4a74aaaaf88974c09a3755c042
font_02_sfnt_off000135c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C9 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd6c45020ac03c6b79fe33509e5a86f4297c18b07ee56c53ed100e53239af7f