Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b68f8354050e2015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:57:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ac3a7e9afc92b0f7c6b07cf3cf772793 SHA-1: 928f8bbf9f1c510472de016921f38347f36978b9 SHA-256: b68f8354050e20153d4799df59bc3dfe6aabd325b378e8517da0184ddd032f20
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+adventures+of+tom+sawyer+full+text+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/japozabisenike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c628ad7f146---70587451922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caf8fab57e---niwitegulenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ff64a48ff96f121524af73906586120/kogujebagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95d737d31e---mivezolazume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsd2fcl1ciq9l256ev7hprhn25/jimajinirujuvofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ed74e444---46662508589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikico.net/img-tym/files/34765045338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00799d2478cae19be15f6ec150aa06bb/63789060503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608331ad9ed63---90272072455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91911057070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5fe67cfab---purivedasolurijozadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/15489519837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d53614cac8eae956ab49280968268d/60532394449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/42765375966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/10894189884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/89649214586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545b6c1042b562269dd5f5a6cf859c5d/livonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///7930687579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0f33a8840---kaxemifupadasanubijasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd5b486b12---vepiwibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/903kmlpctle3iabih5ol5tn3l8/vibapizodapati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/metepubisuxudevakape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/bonagutulovekagenurojadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qav488ae5l9h33e08bjqkgftrc/85989991769.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_off0000eff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF0 17052 bytes
SHA-256: b0846dfacb62e96c7bf07245fa0c43f7d0a14d3bdbac94f86464f061185d1cc5
font_01_sfnt_off00011cca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CCA 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 4b7cd94003b078d8cc40c2c6dbda9e7bcc9660beeb1ead401a50c793a0195919
font_02_sfnt_off0001369c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1369C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1