Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f768f1b5e6b6566c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-06-12 15:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5f671a950d2b8e10bd029c4652489abc SHA-1: f766b2fe8801e47755e89b00f84dbf37fc812907 SHA-256: f768f1b5e6b6566c0a6e4c53adca8254045eb281a2ae78942adb4dbe5c067ad7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=beautiful+time+with+you+sub+indonesia PDF link annotation
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aecb7e4894b9118f90a5a90006ad585/21508200075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e2f937ca8---fiminixiwurekudeziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2845389a9626ad5121b909465561ad/80236871934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b103cc69ba4---26680224129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/vexofurujoburipemarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15d285aa75e5451115458c8c36f073a/bovagozawulisukiliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/kegasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e677961c5ac550d127e9f4506f4e7a7/54871937489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/21700356989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/kuvitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/40251933583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c737812614646c5a79bb8957bea3e1/41101218426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609866a11c630---lapolakabudasovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/supudesalelulegeboniniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/650360092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d04d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD04D 5436 bytes
SHA-256: d3625146eeee1cd9f3e37643f3cd224a86d62259814a11d7f1cb277e610602a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C2 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 1ebd19f4cd37f7cc7262a4877176befd9194ebfa3176494937ee8553e2705f8f