Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 672940bf6d21cc68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-08 01:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dc7e3ff3d4c7aedd62e2656c60975ab1 SHA-1: efc0a69a3c52e0d125372dbf15958adb5da2ba49 SHA-256: 672940bf6d21cc68d3ae2322a0b09542b7e54088b97abc00aae5046e9e49f7d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to host or distribute further malicious content. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of potentially malicious redirection.

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://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4736dbe2c---18691818706.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608241042a3ef---dufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46c4c14cc9b77565b7efa91ab3df75f/73922372063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.comadmin/file/setulofodatododawasika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/irog06nus0a7mg106nnljvitn1/gogasafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///rolofujobaxuxojukuxuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072caf1095d6---bekasusozobogezosuwuzaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/31473380567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c4ba125b9236c38bfa275381fd4d4bf/jubofugutojugujado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/59062466169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/fibomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/mafinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f71f8ecdee16d2a88efff8366f614d36/54476085981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gp5kuj9prnmhdlv8p39jej7ob5/51210707205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2557afda3c6d548e4290b876c28abfc2/40798130167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/mivujoxatukasapolebalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60619177091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf5d0554bcb---109483150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aafb6cf987a17d24c957663d3a6a076d/87590273473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1dc3418913e98ac400c2e2659fbb5aa/71680029263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/dezalunisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1677b3aa3---diruxezavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2db488890---15920761082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdc9ddabec---nexurolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb4ed5a20e1d6343dea7bd5a426482d0/fosufovobepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fd4dd7dff456de046fb9a2311bfc9e/57421842092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+make+instant+damage+potion+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000e533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE533 16796 bytes
SHA-256: ad86f7096f801be891a2647f71ace1539ed960243ac0a1c847ce3d76330b1f96
font_01_sfnt_off0001110e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110E 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 0a455d624c60eae1c81d78b97b60a4b1a2d04874f24036b7149e495da28d9909
font_02_sfnt_off00012b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1