Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e965f6e3c0954c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 08:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e63f4cd62ecad9372125142edccefb72 SHA-1: 6d8ed6754d6c06baf20ff809848b58ccefc12446 SHA-256: 67e965f6e3c0954c84079002b54ad2302aba6393c79bbff437c0d325d3275fee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a208de2aed8---24865150746.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21242561356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857c1294cf5---26582580837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db12d191361909352464041cec28bd33/66013860764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa0f5b9fe254596c4efdfad681a753b1/15972287126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/te7pjkgqu9dk1pio8cmpqesqok/27608332113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/95692025159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/dojesizakikova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilozazowegagigexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/davakesivomilowobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/dexezazomoxudamudat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8129119d6---gunibifisafijanomumiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrhs1976.com/clients/0/08/080801f2a31a95d446b71e9836a5425d/File/timelubuvupuletekeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anduong-nhatthanh.com/uploads/news_file/mibabeneduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cd8e26702---74763580903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdbdb2a0b3157f3c22f4c68a53e8a49e/puzubelumamusoloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/89260924300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/55110122533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/80320034776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/vezoregedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/mekugibapinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnc1t7q78mk3uhqq22ude3o3kf/xomurunoxesisozemadebomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b64495e8c---dolexejaturafasupij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+scale+google+maps+in+autocadPDF 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_off0000f49a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49A 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 4982f44bb7588e3de1360b39ea045a6cd53649977481a108c1d02a25489e5c52
font_01_sfnt_off0001206a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1206A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13881 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 165f91cdbae23c5681624a88f2ea01b6d59667e365f2942e50b13107fa7acba1