Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 682e1363acdad870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:30:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 76f3522762e987debfe2a77dce79a7c8 SHA-1: 221038be9fd8c786bb0b0329ec37e1d2c27d01b8 SHA-256: 682e1363acdad870fe776e51d955d635c4b1d10a09d9e8e8c1cd09fcdadf1750
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as phishing. The presence of external URI links and link farm heuristics suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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=c+programming+best+book PDF link annotation
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/24878266001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c84ae1f18---3358132504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0da735c2661487c85c49bca9a8389b83/92809224687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzakocakoglu.com/userfiles/file/siguvasatilufofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/37032041835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/32413237931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/7435880686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubexafefuzejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/lesafuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrad.ch/modules/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vomurosemumezonug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/wamifivexodesudujitokadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petgears.com/app/webroot/files/file/5799240630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/nubidoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/96795083130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48a19f4e25795292fe4c62b935147e29/doliwaminuvinedugufolaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/tulexapokijivut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/sakadekomuxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/50374998615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongsen.com/img-chamthi/files/vobedemep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123flower.doweb.kr/upload/files/xewefazawilogaxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6c3b53b6e---84300205824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/5476483357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13210642021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klccpa.com/userfiles/file/In 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_off0000eca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA6 10812 bytes
SHA-256: a060120f53b9c96ab2ed3d789e674a3b181ed5f1cf2f93fb2cb87915425e27e2
font_01_sfnt_off00010565.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10565 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 088ae471f2243f9eed813492efa9c1a49bb8faee9b52df035c3a4fdffc5552b8
font_02_sfnt_off00013364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13364 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1