Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68fba84d0c0914dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 178c8eaefc57914e4b33392888042f08 SHA-1: 9021cd8aaa0fd8cf73742622e64fd1d0435baa55 SHA-256: 68fba84d0c0914dc6406bb71bed13dd6f82e6b33687f799ad72c4b52ceb9929f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, with many distinct hosts. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirection, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5243173a65---nakofa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/66806968190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/makizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/50882187153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/rutinesopavovanajewubogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr2hrv15ck48b2599foa91cc1c/ladadidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/nebineziwipuloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8da2be097---fusikobuvofiriwunoperi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/97566698221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1parareunion-club.com/clients/4/48/482fc251494624b09083a87f212a12d7/File/87813079999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/21858866788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/46446973738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9724a300e42281a2e6fcc65d6a742949/xunaxunijafipuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995f9b7a3a1---rizedadudofimisisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advicetao.eu/pictures/file/7772708523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/wunolofutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e6fe6bc817321884852d78d9a76e321/xekekubaxowisixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5198e098---81841700442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d01a8d3415a---zalororurumubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87461bcb93dfbb16fc2098208eee1742/77520085448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03b03011bb---vawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d907821b2714e6f1d64f92879a1cc7/90929920348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5e56fc71---44130619684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/49421969002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a940d414d9---tisonulaxibebofiguranunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/vunawojesador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/9061985376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+anatomy+lesson+of+dr+nicolaes+tulpPDF 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_off0000f5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DE 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 8c01ecb948a4884eb1e5ad39ffbde8538a9bfcb6580a605f0acf5db8cfeca916
font_01_sfnt_off000122ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC2 11064 bytes
SHA-256: cbf2362dac08ee3812f0e4b82ec67c14ead4aa50c0c26bbe99ec5020b8296e7a