Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f468c495859e4e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:30:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e68939188a8629e071246d64565bd1ef SHA-1: 2f2b18a6b62095a590254f31fc7218c8a7cdd850 SHA-256: f468c495859e4e277daa2ea413c3e9c7c52c07ec31ec6680602bf1e6cbdfdad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites utilizing the Formcraft plugin for file uploads. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm, likely designed to host or redirect to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099518c18ade---23788892223.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/26672330573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/67161017004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1672f18651---kutomatina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8f0527b846---3086283893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a89e018f23898bb782128a37206fbfe8/69233703058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df06422249---xofukezabuvibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6273d8728---lufujotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/dawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe070c8d373518af405a61dfc01cfb16/nonudafijiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfhs64coyotes.com/clients/b/bb/bbaa54d3a7800b2058c5658261a6771d/File/wafinutig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5bfbf8a6d55e24af71d14f22454e620/3948033065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/bebawavafepenekipoxazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c14fcc8aea---xupaxewupavatuwotela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/75645405292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monajivumefaganaxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/85411003628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/logodovelefojudadexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f16f5068dd---81762166310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/5835801759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/78552393319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/xovap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52af685f436f1f4899bf73b125c3108f/95772609077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deff6ad907e146c1a0f99857d5be277e/37818948654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b767e091c7c---88843442143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=bjt+and+fet+transistor+pdfPDF 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_off000131ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131EE 18696 bytes
SHA-256: 6e2d4a0072d0cfb7587997c6a9f083d87a211fe1865dede82a96ec6bb716ab03
font_01_sfnt_off0001628b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1628B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017aa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17AA2 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 1047593bc5da18f5663bf764d6a9c19689de078c6a4352a8dcc00782359afb04