Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e244307bca60b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:48:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 45abfba6b405f5ba946938f5881ab350 SHA-1: bf22e38a1e9eac4a8c45f105f0b3a391e1823bef SHA-256: 67e244307bca60b90a670b85b33d846e135655249712500e7b3e607a7c1efee8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3596115bd2938b669f0601d7a0132d4/50131036617.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/63799961332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcsucb3lf1amihsqo8cpsahtg7/61361331433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4tf191838t972lb0kocv6ijv1/xolerubowifivozoreba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff1929e5e5a889b15502e65aea994c5c/326591325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71914686569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/sezixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7632472624---17898190828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54fc0a5cf4---76304108104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowassenindex.nl/images/uploads/42342368796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/42789723645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d39124a5e31---vevegatomezobulobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkp7bb7emfld2teessc8dutdhq/xipewilit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef7bb60160---gukapinivenuzonejedusagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f9b7ea7f9---25719666967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/moweliporobutufamufupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/18008055275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc552138c0a2dc5aaba246ddadfac380/58962829579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e52fd84df9---pomumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c86bced08c5fa085eca635127b9cb05b/96866056562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/panopixegumukenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkgn6uh9hui100vbg2tt379pk2/13202299029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/53331387079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=gas+prices+inPDF 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_off0000fcff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCFF 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 18b4c85e6e177d258423175f47f63cefdbf988abecd22a896d13dbee7a7127ef
font_01_sfnt_off000113ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BA 16560 bytes
SHA-256: ab4fb5bf026e7e0cd3484fa717ca71bd3bb0f8e94146ec87a3963102a7c415cd
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1