Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67a860778afcaaae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 10:27:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 50d3a37c210a604e24e217378a0a9711 SHA-1: 6e660288ebc4421c6d514f3cbeee53ef9ab8e69a SHA-256: 67a860778afcaaae7a1fbb4adfaade6a311a44fc66caad2cb2223a387fd50fb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious executable disguised as a legitimate file. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjjgbjphqdimd8sq1r6uumkgn7/11149903149.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb7fd81c1db6d3047998beca7ede2373/fukikexuburivimaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed9b2ae138a---gokoxijebofovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9add03c68f---wafuloparinanuzudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807b8b1ffacc39320fbf58bd5cf83248/47459736498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b1ed2ef992---jesutakanabajujiveduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a65df630b8---62281961091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/091dfe34c7117fe010235f9ce6318efb/raxavakafavefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/vinuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/68423542425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/jilarisiwisepamafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/76543002186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6fd4d0dc1c897ccb1f52aab1bdebcb/92036018784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806f0fd9f0a---pibajonosaxitupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/43251096470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2effeb0496f473a63519932131ac129e/rupoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/di1mml3huenjgvqgd3f4vpepmo/dorasatasupujexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/zozuzoxineputap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da765ee6c6---kojamevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/dekabuzofix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753dbd2a55c---kenijogosovodorolaboki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=vcredist+2013+x64.exe+filePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f19d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B4 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 4629545e162c1ef6895a898af03488e9ca48203df2c9dac7963f9969ce797f09
font_02_sfnt_off00012351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12351 2296 bytes
SHA-256: 0d91b93c30cdb4b9fcc5287ef31e0f6d3b75050094e35c3303e90e7f2c1d387e
font_03_sfnt_off00012d4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D4C 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 271a43112573e4b83826c16361281103ed2df7b3a1e28f00ff9ff82ea7f3a241