Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68854ded98309cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-18 06:17:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 695c9ca7bff6ed75ee7f7dd8425414ee SHA-1: aa638dd67f4f5022ada6a2a2d27e4b81313294ca SHA-256: 68854ded98309cc63c115e37289739128882c9269b1cb9c227ca905e6c20d0c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e7da66ab4---dajolikevepapidogog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://laconchigliacasevacanze.it/userfiles/files/forabutonegikad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8a29e5753---kemavezopiduxetumobase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca1331a364---selapomowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/61921071053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/wagibenipunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7617a823e5ef332a8f1bfa66a816dbad/tolivixido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/ruwezenasifexazudidixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/643f338421a24d481c4241779ba838fc/vaxalijimixepebominijetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd2a447d648---3152395879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/wakutepenazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607033cb320b9---58043333939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/87055073884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/zobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d1c1e7a1a822b024ab32e1e8f551f17/81085933848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67f05a56e1---xulojiponar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ps90t3vf5fg7nac4du3lp1baih/wenefidadavasusalubixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/rewilisubiterop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f73813e1bb---kililipizalenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e47e472df1e6502e7554d390467c66b/jefibam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160932f1c06e98---17456623968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33141356217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=biology+chapter+wise+mock+test+for+neetPDF 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_off00010f45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F45 17276 bytes
SHA-256: d8edce4e2c9b8650ab24beb944c486bf4fa6b5d7c4da4d1a008d80b72c850305
font_01_sfnt_off00013c2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C2E 11272 bytes
SHA-256: a8f95e6d2cedc86534ccd072222a0dfa6fd993046286475244873642d12dba04
font_02_sfnt_off0001569f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1569F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1