Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67883651c5f83112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-10-10 10:45:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: db0d3016b739043117449a0b02b85b5b SHA-1: a64ff6a4c6aedef2fc3176ee7e83e33619fa9363 SHA-256: 67883651c5f83112ffc600c4e489e699e6ee660d77e7b5d7efbadae19b505ca4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, including those hosted on WordPress upload storage and disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be facilitating phishing or malware distribution by leveraging these compromised or suspicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://ajej.pretty-match.com/upload/files/juzapoxot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://betamachinery.sa/other_files/File/3642247590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/68713685948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poongdung.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_CA7E7483878BB1A5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/60238067142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damuwilebereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/49529964028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/56535707007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/menewuvavigubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thermaltrailrace.com/imagini_ws/pijepovozukuxejodipunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/nikasewasibizizenavupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobowafexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/205e6b542aeee05841c26889ad2a2c24/85543271247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/51366860359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b707d5852---vofuxofas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dadaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/tivup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437f268bf98---tedusewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpeedon.net/userfiles/file/20210913185409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwezipexitulixepijoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/visibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolaninsurancetx.com/customcms/uploads/files/pugaguwesaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=right+middle+cerebral+artery+infarctPDF 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://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_off0000e938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE938 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 33c80038beae30e3798ce2f433b48d0c3510b78e8127846e5f49e7f9b91f1f10
font_01_sfnt_off0001021d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A2F 19536 bytes
SHA-256: a460ad47943d01928326159088abeef9eb395c52b6ea6d1e6f65cfab39ce8095