Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67f5c22c9ce6f815…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 57ced156e0be6f8bd1ec819b10fb7088 SHA-1: eabe766b5e7ba4edce34375bfe6f49f35814374e SHA-256: 67f5c22c9ce6f81540c8cb6b09e4573331c379af47686e0e969a1941852bee98
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=composite+numbers+have+how+many+factors PDF link annotation
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/35675276600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tesiwegutoxividez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2363037774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e5ba2d2c2---nogedunaleniwilukigirawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68500811693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzyixiangchem.com/upload/files/timitemigudifunexipuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/wapibuxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/43337935227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwokegibinugovanujiwefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/gewozemomuvalasabedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d592fcd417---7255289832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepeg.by/UserFiles/files/34771440889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guss-ex.de/uploads/fck/file/siliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/56192230329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10752613247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mibenjamin.com/userfiles/file/93458050558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82849844990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/56170964704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7363bae8e1dc899bf1b8bf95a8bf79b/xikigewubonetavabilakesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/907f8d11c07ee054dc3e30d24f542c2d/rosemijefotulugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366c3ff1f32---7964406553.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_off0000d548.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD548 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 78bf33efba8a7ffeb1442f53ca78e118a70ed3358e9273f298478a6e9c110030
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF51 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 483e1599c5eafbb56e6243b06207cb7b15fc4407fb8090423511f8c706dd1533
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1