Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f300e4657cc83e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d2c01acac683fb774e696de24979a60c SHA-1: d2675d121ead6631a24419a11f494275883d47d6 SHA-256: f300e4657cc83e0b4ddf41bd372b1efeed02c6cd4796a00579d3bbdd31371878
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22880105941.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad7c1755e---92115785063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f71a7e46c---60385060726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3afd5ee00---diwukusuwatukudebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/lakekapowawovoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/78677417024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1621634422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/lipoxafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3657b17ce9---74478300746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e60bd9c1fd01f6f7a3a5ccef845fa9/72340552604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfacd664ff4---matodudopanokifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6bf3c54dfec532451105678326c59f/19098090282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15382506199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/50616221707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/nilufufavinivujax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32295d0333322d7adead13b0c20d1dfb/15677860764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/61982776097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0aaa731a0ed9975e5661758d0e4beda/rasajenapapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4ea56e175---lisofuvimexewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/kinuvofefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc94ac6f7f2c292c2a8e2c562ac93121/xoduxenegupadifibopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krl6c2oko15o47fvp90orph4nu/1516314979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/26253277218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/544abc429f06a3a1fa5eb2ac60024f14/nexekupefutigadujavife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=low+humidity+statesPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d829b2c80abc3666191314c3051b271/galofejit.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_off000112ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BA 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 808d3c21b1caea0de730bc28b27e036665e94e68d39b499d74373af43283f9be
font_01_sfnt_off00012ac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC1 18364 bytes
SHA-256: 6b003c6fb6db4344e54d8a3aa8173488b3672fe6551aca61f2d6eb922603acc9
font_02_sfnt_off00015aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1