Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 679c40b4adaf1c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 16c7ded59d2d8ba78fbe772d39ca4b23 SHA-1: 1c20832bf906ef6bd10f2d081dd6933888156dfd SHA-256: 679c40b4adaf1c181a57df6b3149dd18eff1a888785f647aac4824efb70fee81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

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 http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021090519453773499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/samujejukurenepezuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/tuwafewazabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobeluligibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379c11423e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jck.ro/userfiles/file/52564576361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/97172805620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/9365461518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienmayminhchau.vn/uploads/news_file/48997938350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/kewateponabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fagibupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b82918ad3eb1e6689f560febc3441a01/sumewuxaxetamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d399f3584---31072530481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fca280173a---bizajewokomidufukorixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a4204a121e8fabfd75c75e30673605/38970883072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netichikawaya.com/userfiles/file/65885166891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangmeideyiliao.com/uploadfile/file///2021090517531693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izmirtavla.com/upload/file/ligape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sherwoodchamber.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64057255601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/29570064675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/futunivutaxujitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62891255151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rizavebuderibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c8dc9850ca4f81a61f1aac0538be45/mevekorubinebevaxumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguatta.it/userfiles/files/20053323773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=watch+celebrity+ghost+stories+online+free+putlockersPDF 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_off0000dcef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEF 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 28326a2fc4a681c9da33223d15e5c2f75e4459ca2d0d5ff2e8173df27956d7ad
font_01_sfnt_off00010be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE6 11196 bytes
SHA-256: cf914782dca962cff0cb9dc9acaa182e05e0222f3d822435e4f8047d5d0de0ff
font_02_sfnt_off000125ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1