Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e7357d0ea4324a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-05-23 15:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 561e22a3f4193a42e7d360c5cc863c19 SHA-1: 45b098881f9d5fa3fdcdecdf3788d19bbaf17cc0 SHA-256: 67e7357d0ea4324acb30cbfa930b6f76e11bb0603b25439feccb588fc989aa19
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations and appear to be part of a link farm. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to satellite imagery search results, likely intended to trick users into visiting malicious sites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c701d2eb1af4c84b313303bd18bf235f/bebide.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404a6017f47a702ca3e5a09bd8996823/ferozejijiviliveze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba620e68323b7287a3eb66dffd9b682/tatagenojukufewaxurenejef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/novamaligikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkr4c42alhjust8jm6tb47pkt5/61590270394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2df086ca2b3d0184adc8e723f02b2736/zunolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4489668b7883445d5caa0e0661ea0e68/sesarijokone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63b4d98fea600fe33c894f6be363c67/27325005499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b34cb474f---xelegukejodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076006c62fe6---nodurejotezitapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5ang3ulrv8erf50ec4m3i8b9t/66524468263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/31054592450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/72334416675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntmej56gd8feckrhl2sdkmsfm1/vatogewogenizuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=como+puedo+ver+imagenes+satelitales+en+tiempo+real+gratisPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD537 5244 bytes
SHA-256: e71e453cbbe295897ce6f8c9a6e2504b68f649fce224b0d14d2b641265467320
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F8 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 94f72b60c79647d6e8bb1ce9c69a3991cf6d94ccb69ad60d86363ba4a59d778b