Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 672069682e643272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:30:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0fee30179f00458d39a7e7701e5f977f SHA-1: d2e0116025e71338f8aaddede4c493d7ec849f32 SHA-256: 672069682e643272ea8d8a1637864c7ca076114ce55363a7b4797b22417dbceb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a tracking mechanism, common in phishing campaigns.

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://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39452302147.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38igcrkhlaut2qg22dti2ip2b5/barebefamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/22158946469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pate4me.com/userfiles/file/98729440124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/nojuxidogizoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/xozakibenunabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/09/05/xevivirewiwogamalodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a77148c40c6921e67b54367fbfb22d8/feketodubakepabikose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jin16888.com/userfiles/file/12524787444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criminisiepartners.it/userfiles/files/60899554611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7b26e8a7d---96002715735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/71488472178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/fodururibonidawigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traviet36.com/upload/files/16532385536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/94515199524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrhobbscoffee.com/images/uploads/file/57141418663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161404d378833b---wawulokodibija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movie2book.com/userfiles/file/35456129026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusheng168.com/uploadfiles/20210908193000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblo.marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/piminakijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgelc.com/userfiles/file/20210918083141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascii.tn/web/cgi/file/lokaneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/6134752b5ed82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/30518870230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+yellow+apkPDF 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_off0000c631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC631 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 6e8bc2991b8f5baa3d15eeaf9d816c3a607486579773e2cb262142e7dfc8284a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD44 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 463aae4173ae958ac38b1173998b68e3f8de9ec3fb0da533deb55a65bbc1c41f
font_02_sfnt_off00010901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10901 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1