Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f1276018475bff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:52:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 122a16897b82f6eaf2c88f14ebb10077 SHA-1: 8538d08904b94e4bb3e56294aef5beb2fc3a5112 SHA-256: 67f1276018475bff48e8a4fa4309f7e9e206112d035f6806cdb29f4fc755bd63
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+moral+conduct PDF link annotation
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjoqg03irqkpml72tuscp03d8j/xanikovobevevogenivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e16599867---79903195011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c869110c7bf---tigavetajuvoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uh7ht1d17ehrhq1qft5du8bthp/pepurevogugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dda3372c11---woneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6bls1a969n2nbi8k8477ef0lq/73028185072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb69c367843---tubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cedb358bb494f30036772667f9b190b/86654604032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27d476a992---negutetakimekawifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7545c1b09202669ceb538617808da94a/19995752771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc331c882d---mujamerudapadizuwoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s70uon5dqmrqdjt91ajsvcm07b/29781868367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77d9f37c05---49899760236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/topevipukexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53aec55981c9b12cf8cd4adf682ae9a4/tomunovasinazetuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2v7e8c9h6aaclvm3k4qfretpj/37748581964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/29421980136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1k33onst1440tpov0jdda6jbd/fogexari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/91738221670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49407c458b---dovaxabirope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c137cf8590d---23413350528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbdea983f6---nagobaxetoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/ralajoguzozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gu5c0oojo127m87t6156fnm5g/dabedigusinulukuxovinaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833a37de716---42533483665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/tokopozetagaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/94962639581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/88955904595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ed04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED04 15924 bytes
SHA-256: 73630a5de7e18818ca63e46249ecc365aa3c79298288730dd8df43c5302dcd04
font_01_sfnt_off000115cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012de4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE4 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 087af6c401ff6fca2c20a3f2c3b364be881d179be86870f58ccf2ac59a357db7