Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 691a173d8bdd65c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:11:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 16a75feb5675f4aadcab769d72b2bdbd SHA-1: 5a8bafb0ce6df0b49f6e4389d7920a43168b4ad2 SHA-256: 691a173d8bdd65c1685a5dd3a066831b59a62630e56e18a013b3fd3ffc8e39d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/49266556958.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607728160f26c---39257342763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729f326f899---494099694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7dcbc7f14cb3e2fbad91e736376dec/sedewafekiwilasazopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4701a79dbbf508429d995477a62ab844/dowixopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebk0ppckh4cd8mma8ip6qu8gla/7934231163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32003209708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609324be9fd1a---6755315591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/86096651195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e32f12e65---21324939057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e3fd534ac---26164265254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/xijupefapofebepovaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873b7a9a6dc---figutuxazirefelosijofadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca31b63995---fasupefitikadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/kenaguxuvapifujodugomipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700d53cf5b8---25703078224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55d8965b408c49776c419ab11bbf4b9c/butetodasiwibemelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39246c723a809d20733a1d1ff1287068/sogudoloxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c06ca74c0---fijusijudeleluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76d75e4ffa0ddd83ac038679a3e13e0d/tufalivofolusofovodivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5d7618619b3676e1bcc4557e940bfe/pitefusikagabezepajujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d23aa3bb8---zedovixijipajezemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/80322598856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/87037974550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+diamond+level+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000f88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A0 20004 bytes
SHA-256: 1249d02eefd1f573c1ff94d18397d4473dc3168d36de835cea11e69e6c2096ac
font_02_sfnt_off00014479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14479 10800 bytes
SHA-256: db1531ab15c76dced16c46cf27835f6e34abf2642af8712afc8ba3e5b1d0f83a