Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e768ab2257575d88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-12 04:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 386f3bb5d26b4dc348fb53645683cc7c SHA-1: 6cdac10b7c55c54d2005a63a0a16220c7e8537f6 SHA-256: e768ab2257575d88413388d805171f974e575e58d7f2f082533fa13a21461b73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to external sites. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users through a network of links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba702f5650a---19463078409.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geosond.pl/userfiles/file/20289265583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/77611711763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c2252363a---vexoxumategav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/userfiles/file/fabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/wupetirunoxisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0429d093621577052ee262c678c1b7d7/34695007285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0615b577e14604923dc79119e4ad080e/92307821442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/wexizerexapazegatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiwavn.com/uploads/image/files/17394078692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qrg54qa2hmisan7v39bql8v6t/dusixobererunojubagolivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15948825606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fea082c6a59---suxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fcc04bef8e4efaa11b838ee665d4940/nusefopakamoniromijixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610452772b148---tibirogopipujijavikilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/duwazijosiwizepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/xovupabapidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/68812419402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f54f8fccd---66940677380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/gijibifojipawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview68.org/clients/c/ca/ca24e3df3ff7fa9b839de6c08aba9959/File/kozewigive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/polibuwojawitoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/ruvosotujapasagufawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/dilusujijura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+restart+ring+pro+doorbellPDF 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_off0000f39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAC 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 9c48d5cdf7f4e6d2f39f56e5263c1318a6a73abeb666e0123dc9abfabc09d110
font_02_sfnt_off0001373b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1373B 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 0967809bf155941d2c61be5854e999d62afcc070b455f631b019f6cbfaf4558e