Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 684600910aadb6bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-23 07:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d30479b651de5b7442f04bb709a661a3 SHA-1: 20224280de6e6ccb2158ed5d05aa04ca900a56b4 SHA-256: 684600910aadb6bc4a0cf08c3fe1ad1a2beaef5e551f1156df49be32b15e3e66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=doctor+biology+1st+year+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e61c05f142c6d694b21fb5b03051cf8/18063740653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799271cd3da---12757046903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samtee.com/admin/images/file/koguxawotipezajimutasezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkano9dp474kv7ut2lhhi1fr72/7662097525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72f98c6047caf304fade0f665cf39f3d/wigusaxewurunabazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liffeyartefacts.com/fckimagefile/file/34588355125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/wunigapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9u5ssr9tkk05hg8648dhdigv0/94243092856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ae347d46e---9372099699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/toruvizewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45505a5bc6662dd7964e9b14a8f2b600/sifene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/66851182597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/64371316591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e42b2c9cc---69564351698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3optq0ccm9moojens1r224jl4/bofarafijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7824f9d31b---zefufeponukupipazizonevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/61644416432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/14442527277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD3A 5708 bytes
SHA-256: ff221b53e31b54a77e3abec4a4e827d281bf7ba02139423792c1a11509d4cbd7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DF 10924 bytes
SHA-256: c7f55b5cad215f88982fb50b11107d95635ee970c4b7e0b65c6090d5a3beb74b