Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 675eecbfb616c67e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b43dd1150a764e6fed10fb216bb50e0f SHA-1: d360558bed5666497cc52c4faf21558b14614764 SHA-256: 675eecbfb616c67e4c35eb652f394c3fb640cedfe0916a56eb9e5ac5adea779d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics suggest it's a link farm on disposable hosting, likely to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vargas+llosa+a+civiliza%C3%A7%C3%A3o+do+espet%C3%A1culo+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607544111cdf6---62964700669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/14049186316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a2e611b77b13906bdb31428303a4a5b/96322123604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftnlk6k6psout07nlgvorn74ng/vokuboxanemamekugizip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d5e1c70c6---fuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_3D15915BDB5C757E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86930773820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d841b47de8caf11db0185b75eb9caa1e/kuwojozabivekatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca02b5aa709---fegexagamupukelujurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078674863590---magirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/timupadogagatapobedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160b5ae9c4b0f9---pewafakexajilure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210630132734_sggxgi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/bapajugapekiwulapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8290200b6---sagopalaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/jegiviwib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee0b5ea56fb---pagifiliwuvupakilawedope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8fe1e4881---18728332417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/91982972746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2792cc71550943f769447efe000b7828/94315045884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafasozigetosebipiboxolif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74129cc014fbc876726c6ea8bbc7436d/nisijovapejiluxotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c5d1e5361b21859d4bef5a2675207e/ruwoguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/48003023353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/xeros.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_off0001137b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1137B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8D 21932 bytes
SHA-256: 0a4affe6208decaa2f319b74b2487bfc2f9491e394c926ca8d0d7e8eea51e2c5
font_02_sfnt_off000162ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162CE 11532 bytes
SHA-256: d2473061eba419677f2b7050bbb261b79baf4059a55d077a941c3460e149a65f