Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67323294367c9c6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-05-16 19:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 173d2b4a747b35ac2333a45f49199210 SHA-1: 41f10bf1a88dddb88ed2a6a75b2886ea755fde84 SHA-256: 67323294367c9c6d1159cdf8e08ccf5c6b8eb172f0777cee5b69667a3d03749e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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 hosted on compromised CMS uploads, pointing to multiple distinct domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata rather than user-readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these 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 http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f02fe9058d---43343399959.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd3caab500---4634916608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a147f0a6fd4---33666112648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f2cb48209---sopedalina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e32b41d482a4fc605f5072cbb23551a/vaxanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8683toq76oka1sk7hbnmn9kdv3/13187263030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ock8ongrikvfbrl6757bqv8393/26041607595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d14362785886a76001066f7fe4587e/jalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3756908ae6fdf88b49a5b1f55a9affd/sipixodiwirojaxoresutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bbf5ea12654fa6c931351ffa6bee75a/59827240976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/53044500964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ebed1553dd38cd54393fda89143af1f/94980787189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429024901767764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f815d139e4---devedosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160970a928332c---merodadovirutafaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ccure+9000+data+views+guidePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD618 5428 bytes
SHA-256: f2e355e7e5565b84ab050e366069758ae8b68285271e071fa8c080333697d7ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AE 10396 bytes
SHA-256: dcc7d2d5b9e59227d59d0af87980ff4ed22b5bae8187c2c8a8cec47a816ca7b0