Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e68c8a9e22705938…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 306eb66dca9755a2bb3d9bfbfc7525f8 SHA-1: dd929c7b8a0d9fe1df70e32116d7078254445a33 SHA-256: e68c8a9e227059388f17c7d635db15dbef7a25095367afc90c6555dbaec60dca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161290fedbce37---pudaronav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/71301065935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607202a931798---pogepogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/94080295658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc2a37f086---81881038022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c50e9398e75e1805a27c7f15c1bc1279/dibeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/75730081262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da9827b38b---jiremunepumevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h059c30p3ga8kpn7fp6e7uuiic/84282118091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/98920426452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/gales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avatars.ru/userfiles/file/pixakiwokilotupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/bimefedifonifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhaphangmy.us/upload/files/91629365598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/pezajuxojemixomijunevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092798d88592---xakugevizatabawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/kewaveberijolonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/jonubaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/jotoselafarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/10497335682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/lagikedifevidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73201422647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa26c9312bfe481a9ca2d8850ba800ed/zelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/jajalipuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949b893c659---43492787581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=weeny+pdf+to+word+converterPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bbea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FB 16600 bytes
SHA-256: db20457482742052b8c48bf65b5110f53555b1485a6d4fa41db7f8f981afbbbf
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB63 15496 bytes
SHA-256: fd3a7d174dd4fc0a2a014ac43a5d5ec80b012a240fb0175c30762b6f3c357f60
font_03_sfnt_off00011318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11318 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 21e947142e38d58b9b2de6ba9f24ccd1c06e2161de8f1cfab4c55d90a0cd3105