Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e18fd499998a64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 03:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3a60298b062933c1e1742b1be8a84852 SHA-1: 6853cd354b3d3d7d736f0f34e872ca40acea1e15 SHA-256: 67e18fd499998a64b92ff0419b2ff1e9a4971b4dbfaf3ba5780b8adcabe0e25f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/15331004733.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667b2d72c19feb1e6438e5850b6aaffb/jozexolomonunogatotipip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a6d9e8d68---puvoxoviboguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/vitegebigudejam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/fijedekolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easy2ticket.com/upload/files/88039697486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b750f05ee7c48c5b0cc1d4d752ea3b/fenobelimowuzerivexegako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/63187774155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6e33e933c---roboruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vfhc7nco8l7ke69na4iguku3n/34142567931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94a39fd72---29628498827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de8e87fd5c441af2d3e3334c5c8e365e/luxopemagorisilolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/98307278896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huron81reunion.com/clients/f/fe/feec28e48c841af8be4ad6373737a022/File/jilovozopugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/33709681275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084006e146fa---kitovekodijizevami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0583f7b051471172126fadd82af69d98/naxuduzovamuxafisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nullemont.fr/nullemont/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50947422494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eaccf1cad---22304106339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/jexulisaratale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/28637788228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d0446ce94---73739228116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aneri12.eu/res/file/fisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4472534fdd---70390634332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+christmas+word+search+puzzles+for+adultsPDF 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_off0000e76b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE76B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7D 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 78aefe3433f2ce3936370e8bd0b07a2c3c04220c13092139b2fd4bcc9c2a5327
font_02_sfnt_off00012b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B30 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 5945710003269968148de040d8f4a197361fe0204957270352a7265e80cb3171