Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67fce2e6477d8c7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:37:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d25d9cb0046a1488544e0a6cb296f62e SHA-1: d382e95a1a99f167db62907bc448c0860f4b88cd SHA-256: 67fce2e6477d8c7ee411cdadb390d36453ec08895f8f055ec2adb2401c40b4c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+fake+airpods+have+a+real+serial+number PDF link annotation
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51dbea9de3---nubizonukiluwedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d53fa6be0c---56871636211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6bc12rt3jbi5vevpufee82o10/dafogojed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ijfbn.com/editor_up/61496577637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/83650718574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727e20734c5---sinewere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/betopepafabafezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/43441570179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/guvibozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/lefavumodumoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/40493223048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/dajumuzabavifigos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-energo.ru/content/file/18998244955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ownlines.com/upfiles/file/83587570799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714644d1185---68370593593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13fbef7a16c920cbdace9a63d2d78246/30279468047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804d874c77b---90857254093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99b5acc47a12368713b89743014dcc46/2848493791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidiensino.vn/media/ftp/file/84130263873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuestag.ch/userfiles/files/wekuzipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sospapa24.com/lib/ckfinder/imgupload/files/zesesuxorexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d74645ad2c05db9eb8c099aeb96aea6f/4234824697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca445d651c---zikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7b7a09cee---70157960413.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_off000110ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000128cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CC 17172 bytes
SHA-256: c1715943e3da9eea95a0a500ba51c55c81d840e80b5fc5ee6d73d51c4e1f18f4
font_02_sfnt_off000155c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155C6 11096 bytes
SHA-256: e99248c436ce9704a81f08e3ba4ee26cd14fe77fb902fe7d754bcdcac2c2f1cf