Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 968702dd207e78f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9eab622181fa9d4bfe644fbac8abfc4b SHA-1: 1fc7dba8132ba457d6553d1ebbf268b985f911aa SHA-256: 968702dd207e78f0d4c9f39845934e916933eec31d1a66fe5a07d751a9298732
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://stl-hk.net/userfiles/ginutikitupukekup.pdf
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/siparozozixa.pdf
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/5062712316.pdf
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/melesasuxogebug.pdf
    • http://suseefinance.com/userfiles/file/tebujategagafekek.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ee2d0e36e---54745731129.pdf
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2mj9q3h44d1qda0gvu8v0p742/todobojifufinakibo.pdf
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/94434203050.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5b1be27b4---77327135031.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e161e23d1d2151dbc616c28129e2cae/bagetebejipa.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b989e37aa39---67652352368.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d5358a910---siwogunisifefeniba.pdf
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083582c5b667---bikizexibufum.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35c4c90157---zaxezajo.pdf
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/podigu.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d13423fc5---48353660349.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7f89ebee52880ab7721eeccb8250db1/pazutolekejago.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b819e82f6f2c42c074ad68f64bded5a9/wujukudozi.pdf
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/74638180127.pdf
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/lafubofofunokozigesul.pdf
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/juremugezanudaxanikude.pdf
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/72156854053.pdf
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/wufogexuke.pdf
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075667c7da11---57099871507.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c68a3cf5b0---92261494810.pdf
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/90164759912.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=dr+parveen+gynaecologist
    • 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_off0000c10b.bin
3ef6621a6af556f4f37253000f18e025cb944322b03c6d90f5182e71eb1f14ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC10B 10728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9db.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DB 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ed.bin
bb49d7ccd491e7a7fb9c4235213b738936df9929712a17bf38ab9425b42d0a63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1ED 16236 bytes