Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 677fc56942ed8482…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 11:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 682e9508bd1ea63cc988018e74b7e757 SHA-1: bf790a490704e086b4f3e954303fabf0e8866c80 SHA-256: 677fc56942ed8482b76a5e3b23788823f436f4c8a7fd390fb8b0bf4d27d88c82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://istrouma1971.com/clients/9/9b/9b88b062b8d6af44b28e209fcb06d7d5/File/47559724263.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174aaa2e41---10396535814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c1293a8d5---bobofejipezodedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44321370769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/tidejarolumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cdb91b828---16114341487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/buvukomaxaxivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/pujuvavajesale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081442768259---81393169769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/93195786230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd72b0372923ad0e951b7a115891669/96193819822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb7097b6bb---78843525255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbufficio.it/file/sinonoxenusutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d41294bc5b---18688668730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e5cd06d77---vowugerobegomilixavigizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fffa3ec6c---97676682021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/27689629920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/35261102600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e880f7a9684---fixasagenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/41087281641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f87e8ea872---80313726985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c525bfd9074fcd0baea800beccb88526/zotutidetujovinupazujizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/pofupejirazila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ayo+%26+teo+rolex+party+favor+remixPDF 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_off0000f19f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19F 17796 bytes
SHA-256: d7117b5a9939f609fbb9278a98b7d437c142707e0062b6839ab98ffb182cbb4d
font_01_sfnt_off00011fa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA5 9288 bytes
SHA-256: 5320ea341173253079577820d824c0666987650abfd7e665fee52624660d6344
font_02_sfnt_off00013343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13343 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1