Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f67e8e97119907ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 11:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 22fe400d889d0d919aa405bdad33390a SHA-1: 7b90bcd9ca8e9862ec99b0515c57b924fa0fb5df SHA-256: f67e8e97119907ff8ddb31ff428a5e1ae54f7727e1e22eb3b596a7780dfb8829
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or phishing. The embedded URLs suggest a pattern of distributing traffic across various potentially malicious or compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruq7mu2i6nm2794q9m48shdcul/33487039776.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef2db8cc31---26652099571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmkb.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12077042064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobtiara.com/files/files/76772559430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/fagigurepukodokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ad64aaa838c02c39d67d71c84c75a0/wazowimenikenarivozagagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47e7977f4eb13ccf98cc217dce65a42/wasikubaboluxodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161457b290f161---6960116988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/86107374435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a88f8a8fe---nekumupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazuralaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nfr50a3uj0n19dnt5k8minv36/83281235917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/86841564321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30786718852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161456f70f02c7---33685343956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45478516395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/27315425921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/77051333225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theflowermaker.com/uploads/File/51842365499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncltandatbar.com/home/ncltandat/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numabisilikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161509a08c5ecb---zolujemegemujegufefidagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/82161184368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/21391224205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5uj2cvh4dr7gt7osi37ua3pg5/99565292008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuecpa.com/file_media/file_image/file/46962188763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=my+hero+academia+season+3+episode+2+dubPDF 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_off0000c52d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC52D 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 160fb68f3afac56d7751b61e8827af09070f1800dd079f82e0e85ae55cdd4f29
font_01_sfnt_off0000df51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF51 18256 bytes
SHA-256: 87aa2a5a2e72ddd38c133aeef04de438154c3bf6d1094fdfa45c2a94d891dbf1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1