Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 662d697a8158c76f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:54:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ebcd2dd9570293b14a0b1b2ed6eb3e05 SHA-1: 30e8ef8f3365f9786834f30656f2162dc9edec98 SHA-256: 662d697a8158c76f7f61d898880e41c90eacd7118eb35c7170742546112f13c0
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 on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external sites. The presence of embedded JavaScript, combined with the link farm heuristic, indicates a potential for malicious redirection or exploitation. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+check+incognito+history+on+android+free PDF link annotation
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/xesubekudulitamivoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/35287090252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newshop.jp/archive/file/tofukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344fdfaaea9---rudubutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409b8ed88e3---kobixuxapozimosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamecoast.by/uploads/files/jubesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eagle-aviation.com/userfiles/files/jagezadawonavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ykitraders.com/UserFiles/file/nilopuriwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkapsikoloji.net/userfiles/file/befibarufinerasikedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/45991648548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhins.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/jibiwevijonidujeloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tipkeo.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62401081215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/87241321564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.hk/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_DE46AAE51F7F4FDC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/milukaponosikorudebaguri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f5b0104300---nabiposuzudijugasediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97584444640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/xunefaxesumusapozoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be6b5663c8---49774931743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/rawepizaxuremonalevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mycocoa.org/images/upload/files/17371551326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vongtaytramhuong.vn/upload/files/pokusela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abrcl7psqi3iol3cblkot5qls4/55194860404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419f5bea5a4---43155337842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszemotyle.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/84633066689.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_off0000da75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA75 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 650a21b0de3dc23868b1047cb2740e1848db996764005ae81d1befa815200289
font_01_sfnt_off000106a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB9 10992 bytes
SHA-256: d25a2f59a63f5bb7ba593fd3d5cea019b8b5638ad89285775b72baf17a145994