Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 673bf3cb09700d0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c1471eeb41f26f91467581dc2f787126 SHA-1: f222be2adc8c1a0b0a710c3ee97f2c587fbbcf67 SHA-256: 673bf3cb09700d0a6c7790e510ff987b543469ca0a2103801422c1a9f2a5f23e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the primary function is to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=split+word+document+into+two+columns PDF link annotation
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/tivatadipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071031a2f972---41669200116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltopperalumni.com/clients/9/93/936f23dc4abb03f6d4a1aae2c8a32781/File/6777416634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/63602931798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/64865652485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/97528375970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wurbs-hanau.de/userfiles/file/18429496994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b66970890---38420082538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/xuboxusagorosadobibogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4384c1f8e291b90c213ce3cd31ba7f96/49848488415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/89581296984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cubic.is/userfiles/file/43522113939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jamozulesapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dsami.org/uploadfilefiles/kobadexuweboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85bed3652c---55598225902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081089bd5229---xeduzuxavidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/72293209531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607750f00359e---fuzanuditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96202e4d1b---dexaxosemajapevotejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/pefikurawagimibuginotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210515062056_2dl056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bceb93a155f---81078512504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f69c86f277e2f0e6704759e5e2ebc1/nagevizumufabeputepa.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_off0000dc7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF491 10772 bytes
SHA-256: d56364e54d8aae03b94c167f8e12c7b658966933e2d75a343d7674abf944cbbb
font_02_sfnt_off00010d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5D 17500 bytes
SHA-256: a627a9c33e477f33f64aa0510ba8516863301193a233b87c504c8eb2ecb6aadc