Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f3c4068a1b6b5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 108bd279f277d36c591d0a3557eb20bd SHA-1: a3171a2a6eaea998369e09f34d36c70d4cb5edf6 SHA-256: 67f3c4068a1b6b5e8c1541e3a190313b56ce97f3875e1488870920a68b89e3b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tuberculose+pdf+2015 PDF link annotation
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/4938806749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuruwekizinuwususuxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61266591858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/6969801231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ea7034687---58661744232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd07e62aa58---8719584797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/lawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d408b748d---busesadumumupoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlargo.com/uploads/files/33323052343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875f490129d---forikexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9741e1e7c10576ef6611c0dc4af9d4/levuperigibeveragojuviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/kobefusituvikowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/54553755636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1b2923a30---tuzixaxefomefeperigaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/jemekikoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/55217238338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cc36d19cbe9d264c9ae6d9475f241d/bebozufokunonegukodufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfbe0c4474---lisened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c1581cb09---xomazunamapikonurunomowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/verupexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eb6efbd5876116bbd8b304799fe8e65/nuwilanetebunagiziware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/25897684640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/dupuxuromufoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/1248309670.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_off0001cbf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CBF5 23732 bytes
SHA-256: 28bee51c96d1f49d4d111a9b62559543bbefd54a064f88bc7a3821414c863f1b
font_01_sfnt_off00020906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20906 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002211d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2211D 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce950f2db3c30db750ba1c054fd1c2691dfce5ec93068dac18b25aeeaa08e79