Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67041fd3aa0e917a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ee4a4d9b98c202916913df871b5699c2 SHA-1: f900ee976cbed7e183996138187a270bbea964dd SHA-256: 67041fd3aa0e917acd71c9773547e4afa6fa9eea778faf342bf79f422bb1ffce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/35624297980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd7e1bd0b3d2ebc71c7ec1d5c5c885b/25487396996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105040753116849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/20695189681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a90d1e3f52---31426300615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7f0gmnifo2s6ftbf47njviekd/37563925863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a1187b48a434124abc95d1112d1756/vijemel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/45634914019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc15e2a4e76e461e7401ffe5fe38166/nitosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91db55f473e2f46aa7da39041129721b/39531956663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/nevisazolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/gobekezifejimazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cedf1a25103---dinitesasoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4da18102e3---2704997099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/17447326291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ab182a12f---58641187467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/seruxotizoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80fa6b95e949f278d636d9bfc7faf5d/vofonuratisifoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/24507732298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonsaxtonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/f6/f6d0431f970e0833b0867c311dafb132/File/kimixunijewibenijaripesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/ladabagijuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/652ec32b081904a9a797de188dd0573a/5926156132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236013b358221065162005f44be2ca53/15190226776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spzpoz-zdunskawola.pl/upload/file/pafonekalutoxegarodiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=assainissement+des+eaux+pluviales+pdfPDF 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_off0000ee60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE60 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9161de5688b7d16fbb2397ca5a5e2be0f0d0c046ef787084e8a8c4ac0d6a2958
font_01_sfnt_off000106e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E1 20564 bytes
SHA-256: e093f34d74ac2ac47268a49a679c23d24669d0199ed01f440a0735ec90772273
font_02_sfnt_off0001397c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1