Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67e7fd77cf98cfb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 17:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3595b16e5b367db6e34bc46c9a397975 SHA-1: ae2b62bb17ac149ffd52104ff929c147d01985c4 SHA-256: 67e7fd77cf98cfb4b398481bc9ada84bdb2eb2b4201dcc4486f23d6592e2f30a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///88890542297.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965701ed697175b3294ee9b078887ec8/75702033283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/65770859847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51ec999331---93198558543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f49933ab7---piluwarodit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78831167430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a662n6h2ubd1ar8eo1dkshi7gc/52598911789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j5ucbj2mos79kv58s60qfa4lm/dorobozajimazaxalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8381838ee---sifubezutawelaposefofupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/93575234185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/824d7a3d316a831b957ca64d4a2679a1/bigefuxupoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba07c0c048b---87428225647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb083d1a6e35495bbea01ecfac86cb93/70452927043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851a6eefd89---88034346432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adac60f35e7---59266003972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60b9312382dbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e90c6ad22---xegijakogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/mowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/8754619119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4x4autok.hu/userfiles/files/xekimaviduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamitobe.ru/files/file/86726266221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4d993e97d---mejujunolutes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=el+cuerpo+perfecto+en+4+horas+pdfPDF 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_off0000d5ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5EC 18264 bytes
SHA-256: 37da38a128b588ea1e3c8dcbaa7225abf840e2a7a8977331b1e86566c57be5c1
font_01_sfnt_off0001046d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046D 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 26a4710a6befa2cb4b2893bd90fb5be94179d197eb8e07631046cba8b9f09d2f
font_02_sfnt_off00011d43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1