Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a67e8fbc28cb4079…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-08-03 05:02:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: f8dcbad8a841b3339040bbf78984b134 SHA-1: 92f42753e36fd6eb3ea13e666ce76c7cdd58df7f SHA-256: a67e8fbc28cb40795ac21b86d49d32567050ad618b59d8ca0f0b9ae2e845d26a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination and potentially leverage SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b59b4f14acc8d5bc419111ab826a07f/73137565295.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4e292f17fa---84933237699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/badefirajodifakaripabutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ddnd3232p2r4prn11t03aopg5/wopusisedegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/5503327920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/pesipajejobexiradafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcl4esgs8uvd9vio5cg7lchjcs/49729801449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/75141827002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/11043844434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/rawanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/kidaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1m0gf0uqk91hfevh0l196f2pd/rideges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5oltprphtdpvpshkgl63h6qv5/86573540457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f952a2fb9---mezatapalizogexixaregon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc87129baa---34394397360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7829c6996c34c32b0b4c3dbdd95e52a/fagerazumukideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3022ea757---menakebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd62628165---79000077832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/wolifetegume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/sekegobujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/bovibamipibavikerukabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/8200411535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080819052e33---nebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/97807392662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/90265362427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=music+theory+for+dummies+pdfPDF 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_off00013142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14954 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 88fc789bbec1ec7e1e93ffe33e16f2d8bf846f712a76d26d60846a263e1365d4
font_02_sfnt_off0001759d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1759D 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 621b00f3f9b70a5a6b2456582e7bb3dbc07083857d5d9b7c0b1adaad43748bfd