Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 683e0e0d1c17baf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 20:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 387b56efdc56005a9fd103e1184b090e SHA-1: 419b2661882b8172f766985cdb5c2a30e488261e SHA-256: 683e0e0d1c17baf0996d81db5a9df0cf63cdfa1a2010a14082bf7a716767cfc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and links pointing to compromised CMS uploads further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=telecharger+gestionnaire+de+fichier+pour+android PDF link annotation
    • http://thepducphat.com/upload/files/lugitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paraleumarian.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/30616797342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc875285b1---17733136792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchisefarm.franchiseharbor.com/files/files/baxibijixolujakaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/81602062767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99a1b34ddea2636e68a0d7100c2bdcd/wamokoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/tuwapiwavofuzefakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqq4kededhg31gel9je7n06s78/jobatasevuxefufiratuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sino-web.net/filespath/files/20210907170910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyd.rs/images/file/nefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wintechindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ratiduvulofuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/xakutojevojuganirizumuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/51728630563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quanticabtl.com/cms_2018_quantica/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/73305889896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/romufavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecormier-menuiserie.com/www/upload/files/10645874536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h05cgin4ujabnk2irtk0frsl1/gaxigejopebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/sizukebijapiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toviwoluvafonota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesandsons.ca/userfiles/file/tikigaxunoniwojobolano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuaphucluong.com/uploads/image/files/62804913700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valgott.com/images/userfiles/file/62848804717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/54662647574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/satibagimilezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/75903054273.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_off0000d984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD984 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF196 19332 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb4e4933251f2b0843933dedbf6a2a90887b9afb2d6f5b4ef0904f49eb7853d
font_02_sfnt_off00012280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12280 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 19be0c88385d3d8ad80ce01fb31047e79e821b2680f8f67b070798f2d4d86c67