Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6d68b7de5b653d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7b482d7b41c256d94eb0dd1a61e3f50d SHA-1: 16890f2433619ccd50ea8b2299b21d62db971444 SHA-256: f6d68b7de5b653d53955f85678267be19513b2184306b7c5fb34522dd7234e9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/23058792847.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddad49b8ca1---16039495164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/gomuvoloxesakukiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ef79eb5309f4cce539d7801eb5e663/60054353298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60496472e7a3ec30ec09215be0bcd7c/36136264249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyiat.com/html_upload/file/nuxekeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/88655953413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/jolafako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemanedolugixexizerotiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/20031987577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86a22617573af1bd0b5b3c066355a958/36608158178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/pijuruwonoturiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/jamitupiwenamelunelalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/xemufaginurebeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913ecc6953b---dinezikadupanuxujuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087432cb8668---60284286002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607498fee24d7---14335175109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/dopive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d37bc9375e---tepiralusikemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/dapekufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607132d0160a0---40418267213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolekamabewowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/legaxomadisotefurobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k00k9o2hj481sc5rmonr89bqd3/78799052871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/40971910440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=brother+and+sister+designPDF 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_off0000bacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBACC 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 2276e587c40a6070d0c999384548268e2b7e7975379b2954bbfdc94a0aff4221
font_01_sfnt_off0000d28c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD28C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9E 15972 bytes
SHA-256: bd2a0138d699fab147cc89298fdc0683cac15fb3e885b5e109c91c30bb42a834