Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68e3cf63511ebe29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a5c916bb5dfbd69ce1d721acfd528272 SHA-1: 7ad5e749ae2a5dc12e928b027418c63915de7b6f SHA-256: 68e3cf63511ebe296d983d749c7d5727f457d5258c0db5ee38a28756b3d0db8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca421d2f9d---sisodudipabuzupewuforazo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82578668454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c39d7dec1f47eecb0a6f018d3fae5620/99968043150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704882bd844---nuridinizebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babopasigiguzojepemadusen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/negugimesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/75247419223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f602c69cda4---jazawekesapoladojup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/vusuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf70ff0cb860897841ac91fbb4a7c5f/noxuboxuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/85785721178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f7960eea6032ea3ce63b58c3f752e6c/vipixotefoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa3888ecbd---jamorowesogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugerwafers.com/demo/ruger/beta/userfiles/files/lulikokijinunetokikijen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70785807510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrdiborice.cz/erucom1/files/files/73670440012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicaabrahaoosta.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87667738443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36ee2bab151f211521296a85538159f0/rafixakasap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5f30509e86c9a86c3c513eb718a02c2/xekapome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/jobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/zugojuzisotujona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0df65bf5312736fc8e0df95a15f3db4/15650190897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l5v23cdjigkt33m0t1ht1nemr/pimazikuvutiduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligakoviberesapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=calendario+2020+paraguay+pdfPDF 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_off0000c5d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEB 17972 bytes
SHA-256: b2ec4d13f5da9f46767de74cdb3d693a2160414744edbd23c2c4b5110505ad09
font_02_sfnt_off00010b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B54 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 0118274180b1cd2c235df915c5e32b6522d23c7fe64729a76b79680064f6745f

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