Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67145a3b50b824be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:35:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f5b95136eb480bdea5e2389ec8364850 SHA-1: 2269368249898c6678fbc7dc1205a97685f47745 SHA-256: 67145a3b50b824be235ecbf470d11486443c554986a35bac1d9fd8e4eaf56be3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://archielectronics.com/userfiles/files/vapopujexebonafupow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc94d78f85a---97748901643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/74128699974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210623180729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34319341562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/liworinojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/97630119405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210709115512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/71496851382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a10b4dbf980ce6ff87a869216d93c9/98427557206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86504490233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d81b1a04cfbb3c44c037c79a5d6d7245/47272738720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/muwabusunariroxozarikuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/76373183959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/rivikuwozoworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/32435795120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/72256165823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/49735128742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809a16e6f3f---46796590736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609669cbef179---38742032444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hr3g50trjbr7bdc3cbtbd4cpp/fozidufesuzufunowaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c489456c1---95937238904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210708053744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nopibetoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bc7c625a04a8ebec4372b328dd545cd/15755500777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=wondershare+mobilego+registration+codePDF 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_off0000e826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE826 10952 bytes
SHA-256: f072b7fc1ef88baca5d44e550182ab34bcf72cfefe95f3341f84f16173fd15c8
font_01_sfnt_off00010122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10122 17720 bytes
SHA-256: 54944db9f785f8e9e8825e33c5deb72b34de897b9548a97aa28c9e0a67b896ac
font_02_sfnt_off00012f74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1