Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67c6e0374a9246c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:16:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 68f1e5e21200a5b103edd4990625985f SHA-1: d8972a902b2b40353b48efdd1f6163c039d72723 SHA-256: 67c6e0374a9246c5243904068827154debd6604b5b192b5c8093430d9856c36a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The PDF_IMAGE_LURE heuristic indicates it presents an image to the user, likely hiding a clickable link. Numerous URLs embedded within the document, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations. The document's structure and numerous external links strongly indicate an attempt to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cyber+kill+chain+lockheed+martin+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cdm8ohdb01p1nvdrlhg21vq11/riwetadefosuludilogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvjacll75rs7oi8glgj19dih14/11833445556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f28cfc418f45b6dc38d4a88ba1cb80/vugumavuxena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4142f406cf5a1cd3c5dcff334aa07747/38753570077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7575f3381---ludokozurukojikuwezimene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a39c4b5195f1dd45b2da41597420656/zededevelufisuwigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridujigabatalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brianhaymore.com/images/e/file/zepatemotavoretaduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72513215184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25759184547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abisspaandboutique.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/68510170952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/36773694576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127359b6c8cf---89354310300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117e9ba29e63---73552415010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/78725144099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamoroga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pvesc.vn/uploaded/file/fowonolovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudajojokowidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cengilli.com/icerik_images/file/gatuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njbeihang.com/uploadfile/file///2021083102220994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/97510522487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/xesiruvipupibima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c309251caac---rosifugiboxifuzijim.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB046 13712 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd52ccffba041df12ceafec7cc3378f66a061c7f22f54dc87790e0046405dfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD207 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 076e535d3db45f34bffcb8333f9a8a217c4f47f472dedc06dbc6ddc8645a0b63
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1