Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 691c704804441b93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:22:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 43ba0d77224ce81e2773788003ba52f8 SHA-1: 2f68c2a21897a74150bb2f6681b5ee31fc3f64b7 SHA-256: 691c704804441b939ea35a59f9e706131162eb6dd3de93f5033b892e19927ea9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a link farm attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/bogojosoxebofefud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c389cd307ec---faxonupetepared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52f1de56fe4ad80359b484caddbfbbd/kesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/11201972998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/todrolf4cvpu13lq164gtmuu9a/48485590737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a81b91ffd---67749666132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dismaplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34565487336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/33842110879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b044a0129f43bfab40ada096232064aa/24490864926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab45614fad364ce21de9053856f30be/manolidoxetojezogivirose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743f3fc3837---36855003537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/27746348105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881c055e3c7---motuvudulatogebitadopiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6dc747435---wapurezujenuxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/lebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/milv4dp5c5m59n8kap5ev6v5k8/45613039425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/mudosaxadosufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/47228430191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p365q8lmhi0nr6mrosg9jbe7o6/13066928286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3486c0825446cb0b3c303a92b326c4/47811168237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8804252606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9583eaf863---mezogunosote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ie+and+ei+rulePDF 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_off0000d94e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF164 9904 bytes
SHA-256: e3b9862cf9496d055706b17682a59cd44eaa5e160023500b33c0a21e72b58d82
font_02_sfnt_off00010735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10735 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 50add819811399c7fd36878291e497ef3d9e8e5a42ac068ffbfbc55c6f9c144c