Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0673f921f17dd983…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-10 05:19:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b6770fdd2c0a11b5572a0d72b41e5e4f SHA-1: 12f326e5ff69753b7fcf13d65bf948beaeeb52ee SHA-256: 0673f921f17dd983c57a0fbdcb59e165bb7fbe3d7ba3717cc3d1774a22dda929
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. The embedded JavaScript stream and the ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further support a malicious classification. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=100+pics+cheats+sweet+shop PDF link annotation
    • http://tanabuauto.com/js/upload/files/56979593851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joniliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6284bc1846---kasajepamorabuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/bonabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6d4eb4ab2---nibusamisores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khochailo.com/upload/ck/files/mopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/38883380324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10b6fb861b---didipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sy-tech.eu/file/51870702657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44692590217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/49917309971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54106764170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/difivelupusamimidotowag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/78941706632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a330d997f98---31553528531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/56977472817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb70eddede4c574b64611f21dfec7856/kunujilefubovoxibupepemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608712ef042aa---43290453349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/25333711365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/86663887516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/gatotepapatetugomasamave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92385eaf86---42102770143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ae05dbd079aa77c6ca897f87be949c4/84820565302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfr34c7bh27lmhri4o926un6er/95323995095.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ec2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2B 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 3e35d2c65b1a68a81ee98e310a1080050b46fcf9da23efecbe90f8746c0c1a2c
font_01_sfnt_off000103f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C04 17172 bytes
SHA-256: e5438313525dc8308c329022f3192c9ef13779905479bb8c3e6fd7dc1967879e