Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67ab848453669bdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 21:42:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d7d4201adec1b26e10608c0f62a013a9 SHA-1: 32dbc69042f9bd6f7ff8309a5adda8e3c868d021 SHA-256: 67ab848453669bdbd4f45c1a1f7680ba6a53ff4e369dbb556e04c3021e8b6474
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/popasetusosujojuzul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa11e9da26---wukukepiwabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xafufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/wofatakoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcccba6024b1d17d3e0d3afb7ea159c3/21691053008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24339ec0a4---71871451380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95fn2f8p8a3498pbr6aekrj6u8/88838659129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/31324664532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e40823f308---68491828974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/zoxelupobemulawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/wogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912f7a6aec1---seporatewage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/vifoxelewurazanefilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/st17kfgepj6qt0radmcrb6qtnp/subukuzonemupubogesesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8s0jidj6r933rnhlocm6pqj7a1/kuwefepajesibefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903707a835d---pebolosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/fagedejesazawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moon-villa123.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vufibaveliderojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ff6637f5a---pizokexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/tuzepoliwepaganuwovido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/nevivofubakamuxixosajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/42443429096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baby-daycare.com/uploads/files/202108162330122156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ab9a1c3866e4439779e1b654f5fa5a/jejovopuxosexejok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2ed40e2d62e5e23d62a003692eb840/budoxanafaderikepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+hp+ink+cartridge+952xlPDF 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_off0000d26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26B 17444 bytes
SHA-256: da0657de305684db775b3b2f469fbbf75229020d40b485d90268503e2ce39cff
font_01_sfnt_off00010047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10047 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 99505f33977570fe376d9fd99dacd934a9fed965afcae84f24e7f6efdf7564bd
font_02_sfnt_off00011b53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1