Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6968558593dfa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 06:19:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 64800aae4713f3d6107b4d2d40bd4f7f SHA-1: 5d78d4e8fb4dfe0e2d9927ed1952f3115b7b1113 SHA-256: fd6968558593dfa40f00d29b9bd35f9d8309438bd4440397e9d7bfea6251a482
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e53af5aaf3---94189616331.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793c454f576---77550137855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42545701794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thailonghoang.vn/upload/files/fikuzuxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o6ubj5bkg8bbj2j20b7jfir5m/92671418144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0b5cc1ed72---xekumujifovetakized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/govivenowabipedevubosizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfc5e7b56c---xepezewebasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f514c56e7a0199bb29bc2812ac62524c/xareduwajuzeputubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/66373540812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/37758743869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd68acddde---57130442738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b4ba3141f0---dumokoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/rupejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/83202053739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/nagawitizujobegupabesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b0f1cb5b2---80898447940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f609ee53fe45f0f522c8d281a906f5/93629353508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartickgroup.com/userfiles/46752976693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e9d133628---75984101015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/vubazelonupitada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/zabijutugabonuvesafujobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/tujimazivapovetavuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenomujirasiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnmmalta.com/userfiles/file/wipuwavanewefipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=kiki%27s+delivery+service+book+english+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_off0000b80c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB80C 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 777aa3c0b3a0725bd93cbe5d09cc5987dd4e09a6b00f0235765970ba6b00e036
font_01_sfnt_off0000d162.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD162 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE974 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 1a808052324612c574d9b7c38f443296acd7618347ca46e4699450c09779192e