Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68605305a8f26a26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 68d0ba4bb8d3a4c4c0df0c333f31f898 SHA-1: 836da2031a7b4eac5176c8b09cea08975a76e280 SHA-256: 68605305a8f26a262d079b2032219426ad3be5ac7ac126592ae9d473175904a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a downloader or phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/28049332253.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/sukodiwelipeluzosogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388c7dfd7e61d38e4628e42255b38dd0/rufirudobukigupujosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqleqjj1hod9lobkfjr2a5up71/wupipuxuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/gijefix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jorefogoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicula.pl/web/uploads/files/zefelezusujanonusagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13f737330da274ef59d1007e0725dfcb/89097972784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/37040478581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/26598480387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkdsnih99ogtd3craq7vhouo88/11644300798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/15748279413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709da7c6dc4---84105286953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0545d8d8d4adb440c873dc661339ee/14771123291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/85086707201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/jolonelododufatezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606ee3d420e61---84486773653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/54711132259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/79581714919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/bexegubasabirojigagoron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601173032201408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fdac31a49e7bb52f199293588befdfa/sitakawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ecbcaa510be19abb844d86ce907f192/18321303365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/531707398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/37657970687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc48066359b---bakufutazazidalopagovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=kinematics+of+machinery+notes+pdfPDF 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_off0000e571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE571 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 837a9a8c4d22716c5dba6c598b4a2172610ed39d521642a08860e4b1c311f7b3
font_01_sfnt_off000112ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC3 10944 bytes
SHA-256: d0cfba29ad464f307f5f434ab506f6a50b9ae3339d9f20c96ea26b2ec034efee