Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67cb14532d5aef3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:09:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b7e199188e32f05ac8e48da3e4929b6b SHA-1: f550d423f6847a82246ce7b089b70b13a209501f SHA-256: 67cb14532d5aef3d88e467c263769b18d94776148dddd8197369e0f8a6e4b123
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm used for distributing malicious content. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further supports a malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021062315004755.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823a8e981d7---fipoluwupuvobotokefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p57o93fev1ghe35ptgfoduulam/45551536837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0798538be5---kejezobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/36624929843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugolexuwuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa71c2ce6bd---3948097278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/55135174095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/083120f29c6bff2d7d86bf2aab0e38ce/29011700315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/65254702305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b432fee66d0---33134923003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/47955008320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089643a1ca51---72598716709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/pugamujuvesusimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99aad2a96---90506392739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/kikawobaferoxenidofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3bd70ccea---ribajekabufoguxelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19761635517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773dd95e72a8f9f8d633762b96f98880/70927825770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92cdebc156719e1e5c27adadbef5df1f/10244778462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkdths6253eisktu80u0qibvhp/duvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694drdcbtjuqoj62m5olvu3av7/67713944459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/93333379769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1eedde803---51995214895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ad5496e12---balev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=free+credit+card+number+with+money+2021PDF 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_off0000e2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD3 17020 bytes
SHA-256: bdaba03e69e0f58dad25e03de291d6a1467a32870588659360a7b96038028b99
font_02_sfnt_off0001276b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276B 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 20782687c82a6a4764448016e27b1c6fa83ae182ded71d5fbf85159649255f95