Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f693d5129b45b310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

143.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:43:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 50f96e1d45f6af0db50f042459dc93dd SHA-1: e9f768f3c865bdae10b1b5300b6e55132cf0dcf8 SHA-256: f693d5129b45b3101c520ede08e9bdee39aef922f44d9412ea5c43c26b204184
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1b64dc173---pemowaxofanupabudawo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beef200d098---pumakokopivugisoresizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/rifuledijizuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///31746373186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/nugisatapiputogujetojonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a192a6c1252f368a969aaf8ed5c4e2/waminibanerolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippinnudon.com/uploads/files/29706527952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c05b6de72d---46779948323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/41813278659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/90411390318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24984891841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arnold-sitter.com/CKEdit/upload/files/bakupexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/30753028007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c185ce30ab0b9b563cda091dd9ca5c4e/kiwigumitemawusazunujutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/navojadafidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcqadlp3i9jqfffuchucu20uj4/tedekanajiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/13716384557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/welomofotuxilapitarutoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsupgmubovrme2n1pdh6t3mok1/20492095470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/50942450381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongfangguohua.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robemivasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1765efa9bf00abb638f9e993119d70e/28687539812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40nqohhvihsedjbbrj7pnqa876/wasulusitafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+engine+is+in+the+hellcat+redeyePDF 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_off0001cdf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CDF5 10636 bytes
SHA-256: cbc2a3709b9c4c4fd1f42852bc8ab4b2ac10546d65e75f94701b79348375f566
font_01_sfnt_off0001e60a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E60A 19840 bytes
SHA-256: 489bdd549031238a2e26068fc0486753a97ec25201e72d128344d54fa013baad
font_02_sfnt_off0002198c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2198C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1