Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67b09f83e9fe3540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c351b941ac4c5acd07034295dc49aeae SHA-1: 32e3282559cf82e797ac47928b72dd603e404fb2 SHA-256: 67b09f83e9fe35408211f511b3d055d63fce57a7653ab899a3e63f6f684599eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and a PDF link farm heuristic strongly suggests an attempt to lead the user to a compromised or malicious resource, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210722223501.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdnhplmh4gjr5gslgc64prrv77/fuwarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/gisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f223341a8b---65558304577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69843490763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de//files/file/wubagebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peltonfell.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwenagadulutuweguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents//files/pixovewekazuwijujuwoleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0rbmm9hv0kvsf6ud7u0qirklk3/gosusupuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607169ff34ccf---16074956785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821a279ce4a---gozixijebawawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074521cd0bd2---nejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887cb080849---65215270960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenvisioninternational.gm/userfiles/file/47401028629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ad66c169f---47476331010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096f940a3cdaead1e0c4d3329f74f851/vegemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0b0efe64451333143ecebd42f3d9ad/vodiwobijuvavekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74235035473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfnt6jbo8skpoq7remqqcfjr6b/10516515932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e3f609901kqakk0btslu3eenr/40289734320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/70678648182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/79010944450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6e43b030934f52d08e12a5daa599c1a/nekoruxagigunujusedelufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=tautologies+and+fallacies+pdfPDF 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_off0000e297.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE297 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 259a27f458a2272bbe534915755b39ee6bdecc9dba3e515d3e28ed9ee43756a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001135c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135C 18372 bytes
SHA-256: f8d52e0d6616355fae958afac03c96de7d46752082315f078ba682db699c8bc3