Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 167cb57623818426…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 09:36:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 97655575feba4a1a41df756b7973a541 SHA-1: 56b8d35bc5665ca3700cc3711512e3f9a6a62121 SHA-256: 167cb57623818426938ee81173b5e49ec905dad8ef1cf1a9c6b6710e61b85f04
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous other PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where the initial PDF serves as a lure to lead victims to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/fukomufotunod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/81416450899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210812150345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4jg66osofrrkdoeogh4hj1ns3/21589162586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/javerololinotaledojewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f484e5e20a4ff61c09bae1318ca2fe2f/55497297250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f81a85d5634---duwalolelab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aceccfcmlugna910glalgi883/20986457448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/sopizeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210801055600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eos.org.eg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95432226332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c26d7fe3c0f590562e54d11e1b83e98/voxakovovagujutitepel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sl3nphef0rv55tginepj88fs6/89115937782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ae3440d5e19d02285f6ca6947fc4d1/5420580155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4a3497854---jigelexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d187187061---45636451211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b09eadab19---24407613530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/77532236981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.ch/userfiles/files/59112924199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2a683a365---73175277457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/medobujimapewolepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608827efb7bf6---bowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53013729068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa7a3raqfpre1h14v5c9ostv5e/65714715018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/15909882620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronel.com/userfiles/files/71536102101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/nubipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+great+horned+owlPDF 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_off0000f5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AD 10344 bytes
SHA-256: de9e500e6fb9675150805688a76f339e36425b57c3cf4363d92dc5b0f1977217
font_01_sfnt_off00010cc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124D4 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc0f4049b8fb1c782c04d90f63add101ab1bf98686d530353c1373841ea0e2d