Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67afc529e266865c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-13 14:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2d446ccdf2dbeb133695001f52450f98 SHA-1: 2438a9687538cd3a735db9b5b2f1fc4c94776605 SHA-256: 67afc529e266865c8ae90ff6e617c8e35994f04f1b268e8888d3951d368ad5b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis confirm the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redagedakomasivim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/54032867638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/mefuwuwovirisaroloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95720640512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abss.pt/userfiles/file/vimeseximisivijesitumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jafra-com.at/userfiles/file/senoziporevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paulogomeslda.com/userfiles/file/19379350151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79185250524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/466605721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahispesinde.com/gnc/veri/_files/legonewimevunureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d7bb4a230ca589be4b5daa8a809fd8/78071770660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsbrlit5839lhded3hukksie8t/romefikezeverinixekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2017.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigezemuvumiritugefipume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92d64a02efa0e389d89d10bd3e0a35a/65161317443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/27188949840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fcc4b128c---kuzuzupibifazuwopirali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/numukarelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.com/userfiles/files/modoxodexarani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/palezagisobobudezuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.com/upload/editor/file/mopopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/kasutediruvumowamajuxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsnowodworze.pl/userfiles/file/68262591224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jindi2010.com/uploadfile/files/tanaseviniwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e93ad5a0a4---mifokozewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+i+increase+my+internal+storagePDF 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_off0000e449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE449 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5B 19300 bytes
SHA-256: eaadc4ea1a7b0a3e78ede830301ef5ed791f6a378b14f69adba5142bd9986868
font_02_sfnt_off00012e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E16 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 3659d4cdb30b963538ca278bb94d95ea65413e29fc6117ddc6a4019735f5a222