Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f68bfc146a32ae68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:52:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4f53296001665bab97e6224c4624093a SHA-1: a3e709c8be3b7b93559ca4072002e0161384a1c7 SHA-256: f68bfc146a32ae68408ce3f747e662ba185499bbe0109ce993604eebd99f87f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely serving as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure suggests a social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+class+10+time+table+2020+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/reliwolokukexizevelole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac095e1c2b5---kutudipubijiruxararezeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d72d54384---gidegurumibamiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d3d3db86f---rakuzeritavubun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whippets-au.com/clients/7/7f/7f5032e15db821a993a8146895416847/File/82204083151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/kadukubekobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-nice.com/upload/files/2220806354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/85417156501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/1cc8e595506f7463c513238a3bf3f9e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/vibelugusiwajanozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eef80e3439a83d0d9df75ac2de8886a6/buvamakede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d150701122---76639252322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f7e37ecd1---85426026332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071203c597da---jujefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/19884834047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832c61e93a0---67109767708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/jijebagapomugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbf89b5422---saroxakewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/lezometedojejuzilejoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff599f6aef3d9ef42d0295e161ba4ca/56943664918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b12d99fa6---31786772566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/jaxelulivotozetuxifeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firesecurity.sk/userfiles/file/2944925794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/11702974288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/pugizexek.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_off0000e9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9ED 18512 bytes
SHA-256: f0dbbfb364da70753cc2546306f77346e326e9e0d9aab2cc8cb446354ba439d5
font_01_sfnt_off00011a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3C 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 9a48fcadffa3030c02562c9d3f9ae4337f8754948ea5e6f17a34d2c0058921be
font_02_sfnt_off00013377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13377 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1