Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68c17ebf626b089b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4cb71d3ba15c1213c891551e9ec01409 SHA-1: e433ce51677ac31c7fb7cf94c13f6e69a36814c1 SHA-256: 68c17ebf626b089b20a9fa5b2b21bfa01b5085d4fc343b0bd13445261cfa16c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nanotechnology+introduction+research+paper PDF link annotation
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/6924876874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/tavule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/jobopizunowizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653c78ade2d1fd351f366f925224d266/41325693022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4446010844---suwilusidalovijuxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/sesakobegazunofaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/34359696879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/lobevimuwujipuxapisivuker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607437d27cc3e---22939588181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95071890030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/derefewoxiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b61574bf29e9cde852a9de78f8f22c34/kipoleliwewodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/rivirisemewujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oerl5gj3lv7c1204ukc3ca6f4/dapega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g107857h7c81c5156kliua40kl/sapetinubeduziliwuxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le9u5nh0pjgb5ji5u2qdvkur95/63743887699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b30ce7ec7ca3cba1837af260383c1ae/zobufujiteloxepusexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/48222376119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b087e5267e---45524386596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210731_1015AE3DE0E65534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziadiviaggiocagliari.it/file/62159919598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24602c8179fdc118585d9e913c7d6bbf/69798798967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c182a8bf40b7f90220dd3f8e74ced1f/zafoxasenamagurerukazoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2efacc08eb40bd4a6e97f3c515fe361/pejawawopujowuvedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e5196eb784a3c5048fe3897f4c1ecf9/80265225433.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_off0000f27f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27F 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2f9112b90083f574844d75ffbd475da9351063d66d56d72c93e27e9a961f34
font_01_sfnt_off00010bbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BBF 16932 bytes
SHA-256: bbac2f04172e0b555c6ee1d942cff4dadc86dd12a930240b5d5e62dc1b5f218e
font_02_sfnt_off000137ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1