Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 868c7e962c03e568…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 16cc1d747c9f47ca2022aff2ffaf24da SHA-1: 518937fcafbc803fb31508ccc69783da2e025693 SHA-256: 868c7e962c03e568bc3bd31a1fb9cecbd7c91386aae88ab77aef103d23b9cbdf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high score further support a malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quarto+de+despejo+en+espa%C3%B1ol+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73e816b433---xosotekogotupadeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/95230218378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/27457869951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/vesemivujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1aaf3b0e67---3195439679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b6ebc99fe---teratozewudilivokamewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210708004932_gbanny.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/dogawenadezifivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/kurawixinugej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcubezpieczenia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/wavisevumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15274539561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeroseistudio.eu/userfiles/files/2387599461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610feb8b45ebd---fetefirejibelimimamekofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74173737731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/lodugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26de666d50798b426996e4aeecc02497/kuvototarakemeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/28696659945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875112f248f---wajuwegapiziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b45e6304a---27523232295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i95110a68re06im8o273p4smm2/21146556449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f8e9de1aab3cff0019c0472f3af774/35454559087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5f03afae0---sowuniretow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/tenupunurokesumuvadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/43637941916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojj5f69v6msfr49tliq4em2dtf/10118089459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9021368c89336c0acac32c4eccb187d4/3791040424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00012cff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFF 21356 bytes
SHA-256: 085c8b0d262ef7067a1fb82beb746fca3044eceb0ee3bf59120d019f07861947
font_01_sfnt_off000162e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162E1 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 2c2ac0b719950847b504690cc2807689dfe7d14d50d8356f20b611b2efb7f0be
font_02_sfnt_off00017c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1