Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67dfaacde4392337…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:14:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6066f8420503506a3c404b56b6f7844f SHA-1: c8159d1b9b846fb2938b12f229d8c3a200d08bfb SHA-256: 67dfaacde4392337823e3a39471195ddf841e37556ed6d42869b51fac30566e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest malicious intent. ClamAV detection and ML classification further confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or SEO spam distribution mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizubajamajar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/67576704164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15d473302---kudifunokusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/womaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17ccdd01df---kimikadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/26057156022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88cd8e0f58a2bc4460073cc222469a81/zegune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/45611551484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608002cc458fa---panebetoxupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk5mrv8ai25jjb3md3sklknoqd/tasunuvidabobunimomosiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf1eb7cbff566193edd09020639e3fb/66889342693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/77043771498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrkpqpejrin5rbmq1j5ti3ke45/zorepedafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12873253259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095765a7a616---3385962939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611efed4b7b31---matusolomivirefiripimiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/dowosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/kexegorexujeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/worudosokelanenagesusija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/zamogukadavuzuwexutobomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb5768f194---91306861095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210829001124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ba3d3b530---48481875668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=lp+fraktur+klavikula+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_off0000f01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01D 18808 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7c62aa5e67a7555a9fcd66448a78e361f681c02e09a8fc49e682c1de106141
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF6 10184 bytes
SHA-256: e4ae383628a8cc61e1cc2c7f60e7702b68896e0fae6cb8d8f462607d534ca706
font_02_sfnt_off000136de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1