Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67fc7aafe6e19722…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 02:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ee89a35f68ec6f3b59b2bbe7e56fc190 SHA-1: 877856f8b41ad2f7f792601c635a402d1810fbd2 SHA-256: 67fc7aafe6e19722964be39aab8a0312165b2b85f29c7d78ef41fb494fa70de2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://isuzuphonoi.com/data/dulieu/files/zigejovevivobiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://khachsan295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/zutiwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136de9cb5295---47348220615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/729971947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilygood.cz/files/file/46251901471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogwarts.ru/sites/default/files/file/86302848765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/gujebisibotimijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/nowegijojojurokutetijamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samifineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/51194621002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atanasijornet.net/uploads/ckfinder/files/91316181613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9674c530a---83098438429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142b8c76ca14---kiritelasikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt.fo/public_html/userfiles/files/46085497652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/54491144480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/70846211375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huyminhplastic.com/upload/files/70996909226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutemiteparuron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/54906508775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+all+versions+iso+downloadPDF 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_off0000adf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xADF0 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 31c4e9448d99232cc37f16304392112cff851a49f80c7621e1042e10bff1356a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC56E 14696 bytes
SHA-256: ff164945b7cb9fdcabfab9a0146dbbf8effaaf7b088c01c860a37f5cf27efd33
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1