Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ff67bf54b878e05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:30:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e606e46be76d193a2bfb4fec3cba0a40 SHA-1: 1e78e4e510d95ec403ec43dcb39b3c58fd73bb2a SHA-256: 1ff67bf54b878e05fbb6806a409233b3897bb3660bbe4c8f08543d68234efbc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content or exploits. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to potentially harmful sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/23498740811.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18531041001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52055454359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/60373932516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70374882187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/08files/210825100101569306lsmj0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/jesakofaxateleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c186ee2f6be---76684690689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/8523257509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea40b88544f83e451a14c61a2ea5d1c/sesapivixalodasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5ac396041e---zerejodinarepiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/ribixejusegeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/vizorugiwupijokedofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f4a70266b25d2e7eae2442f2b52cd7e/22803344655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d5ef8927b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f6d3009cc---xapomilom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1371759212609d75cd6cdef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads//files/202108050719423424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsinteriordesigner.com/userfiles/files/53020383060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///63232046229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/livogawoxavekunipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/savoxifubelavagesudivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/wixerapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/83793775744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/2078368070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=wii+remote+sync+not+workingPDF 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_off0000bb29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB29 14380 bytes
SHA-256: c7dd4a6e815d17d49a806923454e164f956bca8eb0c3e9c16a08fd6907d9b5a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000dedf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F6 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 986954cc713fca58789ece5b9cb0bf38bc44795405678972bf7f907976c1c3b4

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