Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67647bf2735dcece…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 385e60dccaa99356fdf61666a4ec3a90 SHA-1: dd5db98ea6f291da594cfc5c022c2116dd3b8d55 SHA-256: 67647bf2735dcece21957787d7f421454028cdaee6e226b99d21edb413f56429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to exploit user interaction to visit malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=desktop+mode+android+browser PDF link annotation
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_14_12_09_33_6113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36634497200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/witixobefutipuxefipaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a452e8633e---74456259936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents/files/43694796767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/nunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/85577450437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuf.kr/pds_down/files/rubin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139512a120a8---12368413825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/84254334089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlansos.hu/images/userfiles/file/xefojabofonivugugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/67056085578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iscyber.com/userfiles/files/66407765990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/80791893636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140330a2a6d9---tokeziwerisado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/tefojinepudozofemudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130853be135f---77669986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/tokulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/jodafopofalunojitofure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proartgaleria.hu/files/files/97810464887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51181977823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/zotedalutetobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/piluzagurodadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/pijuso.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_off0000e227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE227 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 6bf7b269a535e4da56aa7537d3fea9b929a526a4ad195344948cc0a6f0ee8ca8
font_01_sfnt_off000110fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FB 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 8762dc0ad4eb0fd807ce5b78cc11f8e7521fd81266bcd1b678042b0a8d1d5a78
font_02_sfnt_off000129ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1