Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b68e446404e2bf60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:02:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f791b0d2a755f168b2678f9fc4566e8e SHA-1: c74843e55656f0ce01db55ded6fab528b04f8a45 SHA-256: b68e446404e2bf60886b7257259324cecad785bb891501077c607eccb411e2c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate the malicious nature of the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=concrete+grade+ratio+table+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2a03601ddd---93860920465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62203725783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3ea62a2ccd8325c1239e06502ae2b1/7206371806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/zagikasurowapolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/tezujepurufopojupusomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/38023418357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/kidudusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/fixaninunemajimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/zerokorefezumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/kukisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d71e51647---towakegikubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd469e9173---47961645737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/ligalosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/sufiwipuvujexesakezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvl74g6l5p05eap3m0vj4m2362/88087971056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d714f7b3a4b61274191e6d1e366ccaf/54618670271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/begixuvozizetenosejevife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/53466108233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/13609187617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a344f418732c698e47d8328aad794153/lumuvowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/damuxozukenafegeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/49904676683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a509bbb38d9---84062481418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/sitiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD77 10796 bytes
SHA-256: c9303ab63dd65742588a026983915bf723f357c04cce51d21d94d7f452adc384
font_01_sfnt_off0000f600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF600 17780 bytes
SHA-256: a54636a5cc01f058f0b6186f5d51aeee04afa0be25954cb7f94771e73b77e161
font_02_sfnt_off000122c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1