Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 667323eae409e81f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 14:45:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ecf698a22362945d3e3aabe37d0793f1 SHA-1: f4d86a36e08138ccca1c4f585c53d59709bf297d SHA-256: 667323eae409e81fed12f626bfd9c08a6559c396b11003282c2b6021b4b09b84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=time+princess+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/74385392960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51001150154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/wepixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e79fa1134---rudofisofirekijunezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/9296452605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9hmp1293qu5tcvif6d9tutbal/72682754815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajutijumejokowirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ec29cb574---sedurowujoninuzuwomelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531mckmsfe63s5dqu4gng902vb/84494701231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secondhandgraphics.com/usrfiles/file/faxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/24834651494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/44500381854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/lifiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/30245516387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darangyi.com/userData/board/file/71470654641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/44676407896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8smahhiu6tcpiid96m69foj581/22217540960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/mirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/5483621209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/7747250277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipcmanpower.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/65724825993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/semolora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d9f20b4ef5680acff46863d5719d59/kuvijasulugusotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c8acf0d3252fa39575a7bdb73c42d1/37824183099.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_off0000b3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBB6 14692 bytes
SHA-256: b6bef34d3ea6f963f4a5a346da2e2ae98d2569a7572f0dea1ef1d2f69a188825
font_02_sfnt_off0000f041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF041 10324 bytes
SHA-256: d1cd1917e05f9c731179397787c6e5021e5d50b962e191293c72ee482e1479d0