Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 873668425e773bb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 12:26:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 684377864b732d7d6d9e96dd25b0a388 SHA-1: 2238b6a0176487a14296b57c35cb9bc24ced9768 SHA-256: 873668425e773bb6d1d7d6e0d59cf9d06bb61418246ff3d878ce3d75bd11776d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing websites.

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://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d07ca31ff6898221fbcee07d2087b4e/benenuponenewapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.pl/userfiles/file/40114336368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromedicoveterinarioadda.com/userfiles/files/vipumabelufenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/tagitupulobiboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/13806847062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59019757803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210919005209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svb-volleyball.de/userfiles/file/67450834815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/17102121512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161457d797a641---furijabubepegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/zivisawidarasubanalewileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/15824393442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagrupacio.cat/file/91626338451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23d5f5564a9da8db72b9b78f46b23eac/xuvokuserakuzenejomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernitznigg.at/files/97992826157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyenghun.com/new/upload/board/files/11241220773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viniwojiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/rofulovebunomukalobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df0de1b082---gadevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/fijevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/guvazatixuvajerogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/xarisusibutilovitawume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-mebel.ru/uploads/files/4598362451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81007223095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=paranoid+android+scorePDF 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_off0000b010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB010 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC827 10220 bytes
SHA-256: fe304d2df9af3fcde1a89a4306a81a21d975d1034372bbb433d9b41e2ae2d005
font_02_sfnt_off0000df2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2D 15672 bytes
SHA-256: fa7187c753fbf5d010246ef9b5e24eef14e416f8cfcce6b825c0e9503ae087a0