Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68d4f39bde271091…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6428c7fb5e360da5870f963ab851f5fe SHA-1: 8492c4cb2691014fc4710ca3128d064742507fef SHA-256: 68d4f39bde2710910d2b171d82bf8d6329e07c79d648b8b1ea04609e32417a24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The presence of numerous links on disposable and compromised hosting suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/zaxax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb52ce4f774---56219362716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d887e734c18---pekufomogorazagaziziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/48682393386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb60548c089---61531569371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/tezapaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfh-consulting.com/userfiles/file/32377653255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/49069101180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51a5ce4db7---32039985145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/tibaxiruxujenado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7a834068c4---lowosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/72992641928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ap8oqakfdu9r6kapp9v8gebp1/genurakogapubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e99ce5ad741924ae9c93f7aca48e562/peditujixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ee8c966fa0922c69e4b099e76ebf2b/13480957376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ef2d69f4c---muvakedadativur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfu9han249sevqcaal6q39v6hh/fejedezigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/37023996252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52404351101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6074b108f3---25281244390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/talaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7a6d13b148e4b4b98a831a0d91916b/1751852835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a653ff846b1a0c65d13e8bbaa80141a8/tokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandscreche.ie/userfiles/files/56539901964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/jezofale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=cable+code+s0a00PDF 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_off0000bc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A8 10264 bytes
SHA-256: dea5a63c65caac7da3e46a33861703e88cf962b3d8c1bc7d085ee4647307a92f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 15628 bytes
SHA-256: cff0f3cebc97afc388a40760f8a90fa1dbc945b915e98592547aa67f3d5673fd