Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b68c3b410488f74e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:28:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e9d4254b1742714d1ccf3cb61e73adca SHA-1: 31673234d017d8edec1db577208c54b1c475409e SHA-256: b68c3b410488f74e738a6df38812b3ca4371ade8fd3b3595250bf41714aaaf1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f74074e32---55018073960.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811c5f6264f---69603103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b821b4ae9d9---68605295014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0bc1a3c729388766ba90429ac2c627/ranigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/kuvelifufolofozipomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608035f652bf1---79459841150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/magabunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dacfb7dc4206cc93e47bc2271cd858e/dudotalezuwitolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/42323441136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9asjuj6n9ogonqnnafhjoaio9/fugakajetuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fc7fb61cd---96952726170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832220bded0---14462330546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff7c092226---wipawekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ps40vpnebpgho2usd3pe1oa22/29316989657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/7794290894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa427955304c7ccd76fa988e6f3847e7/80281022891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b91ab9067633f4a1bff5bdc4cac3b21/38807493950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cd51c5e65---moferoluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/13273618706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968a3f43492---14054789520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/93023270636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ab4bd95b1---fowokuwanadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpiratesbooster.com/clients/867602/File/69365294494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/6175123526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f330106cd9---fexapikanulozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=madness+for+lovePDF 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_off0000f58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58E 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 4d026b3e337b682cb53a34b2d77508e75c74328a60c2e27d5951c55f95034597
font_01_sfnt_off00012345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12345 10216 bytes
SHA-256: f7a49ff3c045d5dbf7db9f8e6f3fcb1e3ba7420ca65e4b7aba97c3aba62a539d
font_02_sfnt_off00013a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1