Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 568ec833a3fef72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 13:27:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 734059c80197f7bf8c56570a9bc9fd1b SHA-1: e76aac1182b945e62a1f5f6fa5f1df19dd0ad97a SHA-256: 568ec833a3fef72a698ae9566336cb2c0194506bf63c70d1f2aeff23ca6628ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it likely contains embedded JavaScript or exploits to facilitate the redirection.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+not+finding+apps PDF link annotation
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/gituminabofilisegadeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_342F391016938102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/pajijugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156bc54a3493---lesonodagexulebosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dga.gr/ILC/img/file/39102581332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-silver.com/userfiles/file/visebelagebudoridajibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.focitabor.hu/userfiles/file/suwonuwinarugalojemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/bafexefakewomasaxuroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/50736439890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0df83006c02927d55f726676749dc9/41183983115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/2067531581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/36544582460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210902151654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezszilvia.com/images/uploaded/file/4518025942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/90065685681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienminhgroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/70009088353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3586c2b6cfa4c78e485eb6b88a9b51bd/zudalufefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvanthietke13-5.com/webroot/img/files/19169656546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3893f1646bde1c27c07190b05a260df/wonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef8538cba9---45728618743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ciesol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1245570236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153181c02a53---54287962191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/38443635535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents/files/xexudoretuvajesoseguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88aa41496dd35606466e3ff0c9b84035/362339410.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_off0000b4ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4AE 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 3473abd273a98422ed5d0f90df5dbbe27bf50c2fd9dde60f6e028c2e68b49a15
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BD 10788 bytes
SHA-256: b00cfb97b57535b4530b844a10e8828810f3eca428f8ece469dd40d2a9d1cd47