Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73968e40bd342c68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 19:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2e2251b6985ff92ed1b3682266e0ff99 SHA-1: cdea670b81cb1f5db187fcdb7c3da5d0f890b5f5 SHA-256: 73968e40bd342c68bfbcb06fa440ceb431593e9d67b826d20662e6faadb2b65e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code or redirecting users. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting further suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' reinforces these findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/82506578069.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av5l3cpg7994e9gs66mn43g6uq/xasabuxakuzegogetutafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventiliatoriai.lt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venapitelufuvitifugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eitmedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25557043501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7236ea8c4f8fbb3779b07a96e84a99d9/5889039818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.makattakasinti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739ca40b17f---genez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/3130884040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxtarget.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lirajeriwevubarijaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/xoxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/36142276010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/gerewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/33869618985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/87638867866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7be23ccabf---rizedavaneridarugozuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/627eccc46f3f0dd519feab2dc6e28117/sodizuluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/xanaroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734c29bae94---41698107045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22998455190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/zelozidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/43114116507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5u1lhjv62ku61jujhtor0d025e/bidifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--l3cbpp3gh4a5g5c.com/userfiles/files/xofulosezogilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d57c29505e---44154790974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/zapibawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=talk+about+cookingPDF 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_off0000ebb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB6 10300 bytes
SHA-256: f8756a974c79531a2c134c77cab501552a3213fd4f92ff49879762b75f59ed24
font_01_sfnt_off0001030e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 19256 bytes
SHA-256: 7d2b7d2c52f2ca9aa8da4759d918990f005b6a0cbcc635c6d87f5c2bbb5519e8
font_02_sfnt_off000133eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1