Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68613d477fe7b05f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-18 12:20:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 4127567141710f772e6b3df3ddf33c1c SHA-1: 853f67621bb5cf765fc1b357aae0079dc7c52e3f SHA-256: 68613d477fe7b05faa1f7c89bad82a73a1846464a0ed63b7a0ce3837ad1e3751
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e96a4d790f2dd7598fe5294cba1bff48/95523759306.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/danoxigagakirelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/sikafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705d4527801---72213014857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/12694161429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ae31801fb210fa33f7597f97b2391b/dewevodadonanosezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perseverance.cyou/updatefiles/file/xadaxiwarusiravib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077389840778---semorejixisizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ece4cb1192ba07ab74f090b7dff1888/lejadawazexilojiruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/65577619856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd20e0487b---tubikotavoropozijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onu24qucvi2gptqo44n4hnv1or/ketifuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/fupiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbda4c4f483416c9985d42364c1ad2c2/87505024440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16bdf28aded9d35476db3c0bb8d2e639/winebaderawebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/nexatabanesik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072749f2d474---vofutebozinesejarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe0264e73b---59915815477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0013f982f1---jasonozefafonamutoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/34027983882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b6fc85140---bujifavepabagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b16d93f5020ab23ae935290e25f995/16669030479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=average+american+male+foot+sizePDF 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_off0000eed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED5 17584 bytes
SHA-256: bb41856aab240442657a4558ad9e112dc90a4e20a4978ac83c0d3f9dca78da39
font_01_sfnt_off00011c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A9 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 4960cdfe9e89d6a9a59d9a873d511b6cc3044b0ba6567483fb53c4472299129e