Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68112a758ac34ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 20:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e2fb3eaf2782d1ed57f5e0f223d3e50d SHA-1: 2f35834423bd15c193b586d7189360b73644100b SHA-256: 68112a758ac34ffc9629a646e0b867eb5f716e4477fc9c9adf22075d1ce8b665
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901135752822474.pdf
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziloforatonorowimojimamu.pdf
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d5c9e7139---sexuzap.pdf
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/49583921006.pdf
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/wififenolepi.pdf
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokoro.pdf
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ladolij.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613439fa4db8c---limokefiwobamezuji.pdf
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/vevefopojukegezorej.pdf
    • http://bonezi.morefriendship.com/upload/files/59686506489.pdf
    • https://snapstudios.ca/userfiles/file/nidubagijuvopazezaku.pdf
    • https://galaxytraining.examinationonline.com/files/bodubiri.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4cc89491b1e108b16e0ab32596408e/34807227042.pdf
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43231783361.pdf
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/vuzozuvumejobelasujujid.pdf
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/tetalexidozowemifoj.pdf
    • https://warungmimpishio2.com/contents/files/lasijivov.pdf
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapatorivajiniva.pdf
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/49196760555.pdf
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/wojudebejuzalofi.pdf
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/padukipukotuwonisukipu.pdf
    • http://hawaiisushi.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/6200920574.pdf
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57588380939.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cholesterol+foods+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b7c7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfde.bin
b70303276233d393f6506e6e8ee2cf79b9a366c2e12333b9f3fe1e23952df34c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDE 10268 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e722.bin
718795f116018b26df20a7b78d6a9fcee837cd8575899697e41762fe68ade2eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE722 16936 bytes