Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 680b3ffc46fb967a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-26 05:52:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 58f3ae6b9faa3b632a5bfd4806873345 SHA-1: cb2f592513dd770a3a675b45a0aef2dc103b0254 SHA-256: 680b3ffc46fb967aabf62dde8d6718a9ae402b9911e0461aeba2a1244b18764e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a common PDF-based lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pain+from+ascites PDF link annotation
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0272048de5bfd342b9a049ab376ff2ad/16551197395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/3993196657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a037dd8704---vedalezinevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/21363986466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strap.sk/uploads/files/panelalitufalunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/10468979832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dc7b5ac45---tisaniredatipeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afaacb9592f---74144237217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/wutadufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/63766161812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9l866oovnvj1budngrtotfmirc/96851928045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/gapezonageporexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/vofesewinefebutemomewus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c2b6f2f20---ponilunaleruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de210607d46---jimume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607970c9dfd67---97143904486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f26c932b1---90468583694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2e728952d---busowaxezugibinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45797eb8f3---verurudavuzuzolagof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16095e78c4defd---10083596557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d871c0af56---41446057616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/79750133691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27b44b6c64---zubatakivareg.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_off0000ecf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10510 10452 bytes
SHA-256: da81aec61b8e828c1c6ec5bb3d80f72ec4fdb15cb3000197d61a6bf8a0046634
font_02_sfnt_off00011ccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CCB 16180 bytes
SHA-256: baf555b47026092e92b9797c6fb00e37c65436166a02740e08f77e9068ef837c