Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e0e46f43eecbb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 09:16:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 27dad3c49a4adced8be235bdb0f7592f SHA-1: 0c20d3fa1517358bcd39b4a9a90b8bc71e4a67d4 SHA-256: 67e0e46f43eecbb5aa6416c14fe02163232a787e5f89ea3b3d0bfbadc159c887
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple websites, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e1a11613e1---dijelezatuwuvopip.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/wekatafelodidikoxafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/403cdbdc6e98975c8d58c223ba1da7e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-test.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109200352049259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614282cdadcc4---32664303182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terrebleue.org/userfiles/file/lanugadurajalemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decaiyun.com/upload/file/210902152205012341xhgzpcri42l7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/vikanikitesagudamuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shardamedicalstore.com/singhania/downloads/file/61459710621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/50241416857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdmotors.com/uploadfile/file/2021092621115188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161483f1294b15---fupogulapomasinovawapipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/70801929258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79456138624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptnoavim7jqu7k498utgv9psi5/daziparunixiwoziluzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegoniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamisonfurnace.ca/userfiles/files/dowudorusakamamifiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/77501594441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/12071491518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6286643912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78685485495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/46199508086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=dls+2020+offline+apkPDF 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_off0000ae1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC631 10488 bytes
SHA-256: d4191896f83a6f5d564a01850c72d525f860f7f48ce988b057106e2bec2130a6
font_02_sfnt_off0000de20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE20 14468 bytes
SHA-256: aad83e5080cb61d9f92b7e1ab8cd1836eae9b57a763c334c6531b33ff5beae36