Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 690cef21613ed054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3326c91ae3d075ce9f2052b5cd6020f3 SHA-1: 7a8c42d88640293601423dd0eac893628d30da49 SHA-256: 690cef21613ed05401c8e08615d8dc08864ccdf1025eb09b8d993bd99f4dca29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, acting as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f5b55002c---22873089484.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f6db6c3d31f707141b9fc306eff3eb/82597718635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b88d50dc3fd545b7cfb8b46ad8731eaf/93988774492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a331827ccfe---77237451852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidata.eu/files/55095883125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sofdtu408gu6echeo6nuk5cd43/zeludazepivojawotoveburin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baf30073241bd1a166f88400fc3140ad/82515845560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/10799919631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///43381450932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/rozomarupatigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f36c2bc2408829b72bd280163dbe85/15984572804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/57148486607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/1779518192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5tl4kbc4vt2tuhtpp454t91m7/17279691316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/fodevefozowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/17269339346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f841c98685---72641345501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/zuviguwuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210615193649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fef3f19fc7---88379509225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608266f61a333---71002536521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/loxakarigotusadufawumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/bekuserunilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738e4683aaf---virujigatezezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44456b1bc2e5753c508ebbba7f72f376/rubinifuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a96664fa---88616005940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=structure+of+paraldehydePDF 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_off000101ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EF 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 911715ecc6e0b6b1de81f432be1191ddb62d0a1d7376b16bd6973b6c4d117476
font_01_sfnt_off00011a7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7D 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 9cb7d0eabf525d0094174892d057eb2a9d8f432efe5947b70f2f9512e8a9ad15
font_02_sfnt_off0001488c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1488C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1