Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 967c6581ec55c440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:53:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 10634eae6c57d1de76aa94e6c96c4999 SHA-1: 57818ad812516403d9efb2be33111014660148c5 SHA-256: 967c6581ec55c4402124a4fdc813e1bcddfeef0878a1bba0e76d74e6f57cba89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to exploit users via malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080619976cec---gatufimozaxedugutusepuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/fubexatojeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6051ade570---87640133480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/13710916056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8534ef3508023ef2f57910eb601122fc/kutokiraxirofovajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/249927015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e204bu45uvmlfue8ek4n5n246/14382025096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/28953045747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4170c0fa92b47109248464f24155bd9/42027793819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e326cbacfe---53218111293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54883944883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dannysacademy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61dfce481d0c8555e6a7b3fcfd866bf0/6939010783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a83dbd67ab---13071212987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2855946fde07259511431be2eb82d78c/kewigavamokosokamibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ea3fc22137a4dfd2f3ec39fc1d16073/11266575027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/97169771355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/12049520902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f851b74cb3---bifukerekapoleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7da2caea3---92032714064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2ab07d8ce---50716336649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velkoobchod-man.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasuverevagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9221e8b99d---85873233298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7hv94kqmeq3ufcqasanvn0e07/jivaniwajavogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=keith+singleton+horticulturePDF 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_off0000bc6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC6D 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 94a23d276c42497f70f1d24906437e3e558a6a8e5772bc8a24425131d82f2b7f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD412 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC24 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 8b08ca20a684e77de427348631c5d236f1b4f037a560df81a1ea6d98dd1f0b41