Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67bd86c77c8d89ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:06:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 55958a7a7a732dd77a32bc49f6955ec9 SHA-1: aa8bd141bc301e21fc7612e96d543a6a4a753a3a SHA-256: 67bd86c77c8d89ad9b8b3492c1c9564cd5358c9efb5395b9962b748a2673a0c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage redirection scheme likely intended to obscure the final malicious destination, possibly for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

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://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/88470243035.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/188e2fd4d152398d85d9c982a748f401/97231742508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/ragesuravazaxuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68582pii2ubijrm0ouaf733bc3/tifowoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608970851fbc6---bazirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95053709e3---12061315669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c339e6f2e7e---zijoligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kf577dbf4qaln5lt3m8lco5mj2/75798385335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076608507ca9---fikefemobisarutoxinower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/44694841579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b79913103---95990822061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delshadian.com/public/userfiles/file/vajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/febibutujoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/bumukawagonezopepumuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ff0b22041---fakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tojmrvi5r1j357iif9jju01iaf/53262487243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb52c734a6---xupekedulasidapebala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odeuj8b7lqoi8flf8b31fm27o7/58211641186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e44b49693---37102365802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/fejawimavenopamakofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/2549509217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b839e6b650f---jenudujara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/26014758731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/nitomawogukizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ee5ee5frgv04rcho1lco6lrjg/54587226936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/goxanapevafedoresubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=red+breasted+toucanPDF 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_off0000fcaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAF 4104 bytes
SHA-256: cf52087fd3b065377998d23224370d502412964b283a44554a368551d8efd01c
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001248f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248F 22508 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7ea9e43f53195c0118cfb7a5c472bda89b34eec775126eb3c2cdd8a0b9dd8b
font_03_sfnt_off00015b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B69 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 14434916d7f3f4284c0be54348451a0401d97dc11e6ed784885e308269ce9ef7