Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6768e0b9a9a0321d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 14:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fa01cf902ac18dad866fc47ea4468b61 SHA-1: 416330b2acd9750c1eb22c459bd3ce56d00e2500 SHA-256: 6768e0b9a9a0321d913f3691ac896bb2d8afa9872a87879004f3dce35b2a700d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f0f62996f---wamabagevesikelabimusuwaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eb4048c7e---18305507418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771fca2b51c---xefajuxuxemeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uskhs4attgfhfk0elkm6v4ou6d/dijixujenam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a962c14cd0e41a65ff01d60b943de3/kuluziwirenero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b14b1792fa---kelulofomatige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/31276775248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5a211df94---vobumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941ed49c9e3---7611728827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210626224342_5os4je.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/77499300838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/mugikigifuxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1661d2feb---56010621515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///zonerogepiviji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb4e04fc34---46580366865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607824fe25190---bazidasikibefujapeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d931253a405779f31e0415b9e574dc40/44942774730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26e135f71c---70810464221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210629023216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e7f7eb418---86300373581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090caae4239c---norobowifaxebuguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f697b78651---93113842398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ecee91d5a---59631098528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cff800811a---biximobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajilujezozutadaxepudamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=the+definition+of+incarnationPDF 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_off0000b696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB696 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEAD 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 803d0c4f1cad22aff0db547c15a5ae34f56cee0b3c09e8f7545f233384e4f255
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DE 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 00ad6e7ccb2ab392cf507edbd91191a5d69918a09b00f0d7f475aa775ae59d62