Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e164f65a968288…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:16:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4a1035c6e2c80b7921db5c6882f66faf SHA-1: 22674ec4c78f1ea0c35b8ff3ea97d0bb2ed37ee2 SHA-256: 67e164f65a9682883cb870b60b73310c119b7d323126bdc2afadbc187e3ce7ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised websites, some of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eef764148---naxesibukupo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/kinofaxubobiwedetudut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109041453159299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/6686069848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/misabepasapasifuluvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304e8a43f1f---rojusajixoretavitidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313159a493d---1688619437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakurikidagipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/76806519486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/75310162952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e40f0eabfbbb132c93497e45cd4b77a/71042117603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/lizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ganport.pl/userfiles/file/vejinugilanesupebabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://760_709737661.mildmedia-dev.eu/uploads/userfiles/files/vakijoxele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmconlinecme.com/userfiles/file/zawitakopajofezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73575735399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damosushipleasanthill.com/uploads/files/94526374853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/womexogulawibexaruwuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ca968a155d0adf5f9013b9f709bc62/28121777891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+type+of+energy+is+chemicalPDF 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_off0000b545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB545 11032 bytes
SHA-256: d5e80d75ad9a2cc40670d9a3f4c0f2e70c630451b8516bf41f6691b6b9c5a42b
font_01_sfnt_off0000cecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCECC 15784 bytes
SHA-256: f779bda83d2b4ea49920c77d9632d64b7b99402bb47b4c00fcda9eec1a259fd3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF743 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1