Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 672c9335f9cec449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 49e6a996c214cb9b2eaf00e087b7118f SHA-1: fba9043e809686c0a8ae6e5cea7ce238c1131c73 SHA-256: 672c9335f9cec44936ef88f03403ef7326d541c68ded0bd2a93c4db5d57be05c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware or phishing content. The presence of external URI links and a link farm on disposable hosting indicates a pattern of obfuscated distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 http://dchs1961.com/clients/871949/File/4872510497.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba005f39681---7071286243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/76688400473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d0ab55225---sitotujixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aatj46cbsbkp5hddsrbiq4u2i6/nijiwowuvapumaruxonodow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netflor.pl/upload/File/tutiraluguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/morixefajutetibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/38192918437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users//file/zebufaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/datimabiserajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/7322081542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/39810477197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2426438aed8beca87b25acfb96d4e71/38051443032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a171f0e3877ae1106034681728d086e9/8728916223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b344ad404c---63388297692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4a215998e---dorexetekotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25810e0228---18324248087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.com/userfiles/file/xagawudobofowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6288d4576d---85844386495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/42795310294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/67542500422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariorigolon.eu/userfiles/files/laduzunawamazomazoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+manual+de+cade+simu+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_off0000d7e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF9 10844 bytes
SHA-256: eb331d664dce82c88428ba71761a572c49385709271fd920dc87f05c5bf1e582
font_02_sfnt_off000108bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BB 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 6bbf5eebb5d9d743a2e45529b073c4357d51db9643416d8d69053ed86ff77690