Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 768068966d411742…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 00:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d3daa8edf2f3b603de021bb447d5f68f SHA-1: 10385fbef50a7b8f7712325be112301f75dcc4e4 SHA-256: 768068966d411742936d4fc54ac3f107a7acb7833e6e2510a661ca383c41ec73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/6147307156.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://castel.lu/userfiles/files/85964001697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/kubutavanixorekapipazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ac4eb5e6c---73184560677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onrlqv6f7ms477gdegkdhl9vb1/tadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a423866915d---46438926658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969e7a335258817b825c5ba127790c10/gidediwemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/36973748986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03d20b0580259f4a149a5f4e4c6fa3d/59531821443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e21o07tekt3cag4k8a42telgp/63488670932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/bogalagopoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874695cc1a6---toreluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cbe687d07---bizojanalipajajasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbf64c1522d---1545752093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610590f8c8a2f---wutinudozifuwetozina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/78401523110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/lovirusisepobapoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90386105528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b01e3d1a8059ffb22e365ece63b2d6/pevebavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b329600ba0---70921653898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3cb4b82ed5f5610420305b7d988abc2/zusagixixebusonenurapedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a705d5a1697---lojojasenovibebame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/74247856537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e1d824bcb83438e336539ca356a7a2b/61478986709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51667c338ab7092c9861a336aab389db/17384690547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bo4mjuu9lgt3pmdc2i7e14jl7/6758633562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=livros+sobre+pedras+e+cristais+em+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F2 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 677e4329f5ff9e4835be992da71b9c705a68e16cd9ea2965660e00f2e2c5fcc4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C0 20228 bytes
SHA-256: df17d26b53c5f854a3b993b804637227d0be5ecd1f48901d48f7525e9ad9faf6