Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67a2758439fe84a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2021-06-24 19:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c1df83c3c0530a9132cd00b345ef67eb SHA-1: 69a494d2208064b8e38a2c5b56ad9ab18702002e SHA-256: 67a2758439fe84a557ecb34123e81ab559995db0ada79754a138cf0b4d1784cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links to compromised websites, likely as part of a link farm to boost SEO for malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for downloading a specific PDF book. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a phishing or malicious content distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+language+of+composition+2nd+edition+free+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3441ac507---lutugezadazerivufikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0aea4a9168---21244860464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4797e3992442fefc6cd77121ac892089/dozemijediwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myflora888.com/ck_files/files/54740276510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52573271304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/24288581359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ab08d5118cd7d90ba0532e1aab0ab68/98932158778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced204ec87e1c4c337e2c66890eb1371/wufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/19564787090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vs2m4itbh5k7dh0fvs4invdid/69269395229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/90845361746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6eca77b041142b6e0a0c65e9079fb4b/59928298339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829d9311d89---tudatizetirinamato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e9d741ff049aac9e27e1c8a7d1355c0/5064118229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qb7564o6jthj5lt3pa0m8j4h0/susolibeneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/gokapelawolilulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC62C 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 1194673558cf94d7b7860c1c744e0e1f13c797c972a3f2f7d57eeb602970790d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d93d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93D 10668 bytes
SHA-256: a8030286d2da8375ccfc0acd7364cbf26af5a1835122ca66dbf2e88dd56fd4bd