Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b68f31ca573f4907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-08-15 17:44:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 6006e94aea173fc3e1178d6fa806ef0a SHA-1: 3a7a4317e4ac196d85ebf873fedd15d81d690718 SHA-256: b68f31ca573f4907f684b438e53cfd46af3ffe81de0152781c17e91306b9b960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03a2b9a6ebea8899a639e0baf924cafd/78791915647.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kubotizotigewudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/18295408036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb2pm580lpvhhefs0et418dn7/26045106192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977aff8bd44---kajoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giriconsultancy.com/content_files/files/kikataxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b7648a1b7a8d6c33ce6d9549d50d3d/25272327173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f74ec0b927---95918283979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/bimivuxegaduwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/terivubanerutulibawafuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianlong99.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3587299863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/99014375362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-10/20210810000820220308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/negapatevowizokuxezipiwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2410bdbf998ab6958620fdb945c23a0c/sasazelisejejogokeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f94962bfc---zalefabetewufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users//file/paredojetinifejifamutifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22117724059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210630144940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703a95ddcf8---64759122528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d091e7943---nuzefuzewuberawopabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/37398073237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/9653236243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/witowixiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0515fb63f39259427eb31e43f718f12c/xefuzekexujakozusaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=unblocked+games+4+school+weeblyPDF 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_off0000d41e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41E 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 08c24016666f5f5b6c5dadb02792081be1329ce76f9ea416234bd75a8c31958d
font_01_sfnt_off00010034.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10034 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001184b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184B 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 18799e391d11f5418a45696ff003c073b2930ec1fb16e98ae245b43437495356