Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 673bd55809120549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 14:42:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f0c4f0c86f8a7f836ce3e97f389f893e SHA-1: 2e76f2b0a85e1be5ccc04859b21a5286202edcc2 SHA-256: 673bd55809120549e02d65453931ab500b6f95f27a1e1e86160f0303ade0ee5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage, aiming to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad130d5b41be1f893f3f0ba11bf8dfa6/nadakivobulelafupego.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nojg7j0gs84ocfcl4dg2kfbvnc/46708170839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c673b4201f3---29787599669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/23297441418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8102109faeb8cded966e45943617293/vewasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/nufevebazidedifovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68094759063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/30120237619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cbc3f18cd2ece436d77c6fe712f18fa/78798435655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93738548876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gd5omlfsmtg6rfmihc5hv836l4/xixivovupediwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fac93ea305---23875995879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbl85a01h0h4ct33pj54muqfrb/nusejeborukasewabupinuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/nidemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/62895955586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/99699413725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/farapewinumizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81653c2cccd590064230605fd8a212f/34745522838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/juwafunilibozeputon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de1da83733a---43578548430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3bbkqdrjbk8oun2kq4qc47b3/9091716778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50v591r0gg9de61dv5rfh185jl/xosonajofulujetosupef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumofomategokoxazajitevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfcef3d589e9b00cd59bcb248da7e8e4/49477666254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=scar+tissue+after+hysterectomyPDF 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_off0000eb7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7D 10740 bytes
SHA-256: d87c9622dabd494e236b5b7f77ccb4c6f2817eea42b431db4c6d56d24f639a79
font_01_sfnt_off0001043e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1043E 18124 bytes
SHA-256: a3c51e9bee07f131fcb4cb94b9a66fa4ba16105620abb2e725af402904f9b48b
font_02_sfnt_off00013202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13202 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1