Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7669bf28ad15f77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:58:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2d8ac0b7930635ee97e5905287e353a5 SHA-1: 6cbe0c5b9dc9a76291575e7e72f90c2006fd7c85 SHA-256: f7669bf28ad15f7776a1ceebb0bff1d5648d74374cfdaede6a41767cdcbb6d41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/28147297917.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/941eca943ad971cad853651c07cc5725/85293363902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608395c06ea81---vemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/kotudexugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b531fa18ae179a8fa2c915dda8ef35/guneviremumuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sostrevalli.it/userfiles/files/24683932042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emaaravm.net/upload/files/20762664301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/luloliperijibase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/9100362330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg6i19beuo9tkvdvqidk7c2102/dirosutipijuvakutuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s2unoaeisn6lfa12iku7bmqlb/xunekufejazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713d2e5bb45---gobetojiwufosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/92414406265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a3cfbde71---84860449966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/vowanedumewuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95421712534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/jijave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90cdff1396312d32a44ccaf2e6e8c668/salunilobalekazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/76341578835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bffda7774da---73001469397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/415756961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba0b0c3948a65a9c719413bf1bd434fd/dewaselon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=vehicle+buyers+guide+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_off0000d790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD790 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 409296ba70f6f843c256bb31a9888f8308634b076d80e14b70d04a8e209b1603
font_01_sfnt_off0000efea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEA 17216 bytes
SHA-256: ca0d98aada8b89a7844ee48434df4db17985c7facbc4bea8ab900885ace68705
font_02_sfnt_off00011c9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1