Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 681ed9153cffde36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-11 07:47:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ce1cb7db51026c79657a98404fa789fe SHA-1: 3f5a0a69652566b8943a588ce2418df2742c1bb1 SHA-256: 681ed9153cffde36dd4e937db9c2fd35b928cd45471c64e29821551cfbc801ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and embedded URLs strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/toraxosasekokupopekuromaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieuthicayxanh.vn/webroot/img/files/bivebonama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d67eb18c95---35064946819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dccd90a33af7f38b05c10da12d5633a2/luwudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cf46d2325---90519246599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ub41c44ume7unjv3qhk4re8oo/18850163618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/kukuxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbd6a150c0---pufirexetujedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0cb909926f875644499690482a333a/nolojozojatarukatotevunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/76504891491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/71815253009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4007e4b448---xopuvozabovisitejuzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahirealty.in/admin/userfiles/files/nimorifezeguwaxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/51233654169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4faf17c3b---marigudazuwumibateruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38edca093722191df25d7effdbab660f/56477537703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f497a28b0b5246ba2b811cc036a7c28/37011703075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/96497427667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609251fb39bce---zagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/wojojowiwenivaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/tiwixapepiwariboporux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cd435d9d8cef6c01abe1b3a0efe35df/pupaboguriwarifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+8+ball+pool+mod+apk+anti+ban+unlimited+coinsPDF 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_off0000ffab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAB 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad562cc79cfdfa35fdf988d7d14610cd277769a04fa5681eb3e8b25c9c9ed05
font_01_sfnt_off00012d66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D66 11384 bytes
SHA-256: e75eeaf344645a3150213bee42d90ffdc197c614639d3541a282fbb250772959
font_02_sfnt_off000147e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1