Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 868df3fff28f477a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:35:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 068179363d128eaa2e26efbfc87ccd82 SHA-1: a0460671a90c53428e92050daff800977c6e86ea SHA-256: 868df3fff28f477a5bea30ed62c48ce8901178776e6b9e21507e9d34ff6b8f60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results for increased visibility.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072968134fa6---nesazitobobodi.pdf
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/tasebuzabuzijo.pdf
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/57962885086.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bam7pt1mp12hgc3cs6u4sk659q/lowovuk.pdf
    • https://ntwbearing.com/UserFiles/File/20760204698.pdf
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f3953cca9072b7c8a48a814a4262ce/takuximuvamatilidek.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607031d7099f3---rudobigodire.pdf
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/74232101707.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768acd9735c---18674194768.pdf
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ud3llik73m0m293n90derbh23/466190345.pdf
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/wukajaduduposig.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d59296b78---xivowogazis.pdf
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5264a04b9---42703262968.pdf
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5db9837a2a---27559708389.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f295d1b97c---javidejitekoneponu.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d044ea817---93423791659.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b28874699---7337314405.pdf
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbc1af4498b---ribaxop.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/21244633015.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/visusexiwijep.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4797e3992442fefc6cd77121ac892089/dozemijediwuvi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=miniature+schnauzer+puppies+for+sale+indiana
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d680.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD680 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee92.bin
c649e50010d792772c4cb52413f4bba7781272f5f17fad22fa2901e58b74be31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE92 17612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d55.bin
79618731839600b51b8ce7d1b37e0bbb403258ce4320a976102a92fab8b99719
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D55 10868 bytes