Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67576536ad273281…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 23:48:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ffc1fc7998d3317196101cb4b86edb46 SHA-1: fde793b441ba2f5f853c6ad57a9563ba43ae612e SHA-256: 67576536ad273281c43d654eebd34f942f7a5510e3c832a3e4e4181e3cea7650
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection as a trojan indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to trick users into visiting dangerous sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+uk+provisional+driving+licence PDF link annotation
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7fade8389fe390a8fe547bd48aebec/55655119387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03e47cccbd---kutizerigefabaxeletasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexubomifusununebilunola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdfd7c44bc---manudinedefabofiviwojowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ca8b422357b0926ddfd286de3d5eea/wapugojurope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4085d981b---19228338453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9502c326c014b7e03183832fdcf088b/mufenugopomosara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/fegigopavevexanenizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elesi.eu/fichiers/files/mifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/wovawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ctkcb01jaqmbuueobps5onkik/71760940111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/83252407337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibekfp7c53q3knhl1ne75elnbc/vapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/21285942880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/18190414143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6464d9e9f4---5485568660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/welekafelepuwinetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s37lojgm9f51974a56p8ig2mae/jipixewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/rurun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/2591023878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3bd8f460c75f049a5c04e8eabe4ffa/zugoridaborajatareleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/jopib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75523c274954c0809b0272f758ab8027/fuziguzovedukisoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/bafugunat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f6db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DB 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 09a37f0186bc3cb79ee428e199de8a518697cf7e29db02b66463630dad2650c3
font_01_sfnt_off00011079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11079 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 72a50d0ae5cd802e4cb185988060a062d24c11ef1fd709fe4ce47356c6f30068
font_02_sfnt_off0001408b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1408B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1