Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68822b692c79c9e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 07:41:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ec36fe6c957ebf3e3cc193a99b0c8ec4 SHA-1: 8b3b62108ea971c35a0449e6aa2e55af339e3076 SHA-256: 68822b692c79c9e059c0f3c8d6ff231490e1ea09527ff52d7e12dabc4c51d039
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs associated with formcraft plugin uploads further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7ca338f5d---xatuwoviz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797523d392b---jenomafinari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimyasaldubeller.com/upload/ckfinder/files/996873065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.com/skinkorea/Images_upload/files/lufogevibagerexuvexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ff7c8261f---22947343986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7ee71ad30d---xidejuxeputudogaguxiduzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c30f161b0---boleravesixusoxazufeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1961.com/clients/e/ef/ef36f0800c0a5d5a0b00d5ecc8c3c6da/File/nogivujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma--style.net/files/files/kerusesutubake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yildizwebpaket.com/calisma2/files/uploads/1575212093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamandeggsclub.com/clients/e/ee/ee862789ee8b59d3f3d22261ccc35c80/File/71622470187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1494676e09---zofirimegilowaxujibinowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtji0h1slnggnus60l7pt7t8ns/tenugenafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/lowixoxufobomaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4dc09616a43a66f2321b3571255a96a/wazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/degedivovaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6373ba9435---topalabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/15864178915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938b375da7362beda8917fccfe719ae6/fiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/26999852229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e33453299cc19260f8dbe2bd3d6caee/6536896813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f320b12b0e4---xilolavamamadixobisefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/nesutavatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/3720589080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/51382351227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48172c19dfd1fea2285aa8bf876842c3/57736955879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=lady+gaga+sting+stand+by+mePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_008_off00016560.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x16560 19324 bytes
SHA-256: 94686fb6eae14dfb199bd779bbc212487a5b2131ce8a80bb574249458cf6961a
font_00_sfnt_off000106d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D9 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 99e054e204a44691021ed88da5cc25675e48dcf663cf2e0b916095ea71e38266
font_01_sfnt_off00013580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13580 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 4cde797297297374a02883cdc6524f607a383f543bc25f200d5b469d504e758e
font_02_sfnt_off00014d4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1