Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e22be302d25b9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 19:56:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: add3a44161908f7cc71bbf26c7689564 SHA-1: a2341c659cc26c7555bff4defaf1767e6db116d5 SHA-256: 67e22be302d25b9c63cc55e5216e1b651fe91f24b21feec9a28a898226f83776
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/ranonebigotukipimovoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96j0bgpqb6muoa1lh0s3n0h6g5/boxunarufigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021073022103170554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/2044995557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/97940503876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/23605549772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1627804322_29965f2daf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f0f62bb6f---zodaragawediperesuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/zavefobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/poromizaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jomutaxuxonafofunuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b267a5989ec4dd7883f170be505f48/mopogufikavatoririkala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8s59ph3objo742odq41s9ac2p/89302461994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c141daf41e8125e2dc6d04f3b487d17e/mofebemeromaxumedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/zenidutojudanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/33653578663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aildf.in/userfiles/file/41866392127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92875203512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasoriparixuzijudaroseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/modepugefelomugajunigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/wamabuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c33bf341e8---39229941615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec7005d0cb9b894b6c0622f3d2403cf/58208473505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=factors+influencing+personality+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/96552165418.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_off00010141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10141 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11953 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 63fa3ccf9e621c9072743c2f4649e62ef61405206dcefcacc3ced1b8c5b034c4
font_02_sfnt_off000148b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148B8 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 8b1a0b16a42af981077caf4370b9c4d0dc34150851965499f812245208cd1c8c