Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67fb2c947ae85078…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 02:49:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 8a2f8907f35909fa56d6bce14203a78b SHA-1: 9dc4f224fc795bbb4b3082604fa844cf7635b3f5 SHA-256: 67fb2c947ae85078aa87346e9cb3c79cf81b964919846a4a645409002145ef1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm designed to direct users to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to game cheats, suggesting a lure to attract users to these malicious links. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/wizilugekumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b955f36d423---52409884055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb6610780c---nomutelomawaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/tadijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ade6950122ca5d48a4b01e4b1608fd4/40942278954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/28997481978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyreviveshop.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/lawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda93fdb913dc95d96a47dc57c4dfc93/repelunagedefugowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b08c63d9ab---zitimejafibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38c174c61f---mukurafapamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d90b50130---pugegawavezukixututukeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54acg6genklm7ehp0fnuccql6j/sedexolade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed9e68dd3d8fb010b42a46795fad183/lafadijogeretexogapokisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ad0705a9f---dubisuzosilogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca536efadce4812489377b9c09d398c/fixafexajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/legutuwidoritipimoza.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/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=diablo+3+reaper+of+souls+xbox+360+cheatsPDF 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
    • 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_off00010cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB2 5768 bytes
SHA-256: e362ca92d2aae419169ccd8e7ec84cd21efd82260b8d29edbea5fad8336c4cb6
font_01_sfnt_off00012058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12058 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5e4a3f0c7b81ac3c714f2fd7ec1623d1e39e51922e29350e773259a23b1d7b
font_02_sfnt_off00015341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15341 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd