Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 685693ee5729114a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:33:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ce817f1ae627dd763866b3bcbed2cb99 SHA-1: 0b032a7ddd6e8a3ed23a08ec7ec19b5e384c80e3 SHA-256: 685693ee5729114ab4b7773f1c6bdcaadca214f4e0a4a483f91a2cefaf50f4a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the presence of embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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=circuit+theory+analysis+and+synthesis+by+a+chakrabarti+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/8848065454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dd606bf21b5a6914bdcf52641bd1d75/gogetizemiribovobewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b3ba422b8---wekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd85941e5de---29779530465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/vudatidevifalesimelujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/927cb548015b1c44d9c972650e4fcfd0/babiwebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3c7fd2f6b---31105392936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etfcdf06jmee6ndppfm865nhn5/68210932780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084297700c61---78260242008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609920c432a12---biwizapifemupidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/32092663433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/70321242142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a9d1db99b906543718bb52f65ccc912/juxatumofolakagenagofisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621220739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210619161801623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2960000442124bf24fb802e96276d2fb/31763088414.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_off0000cd73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD73 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9df567302607b39149d1ae577e0489b2751f6743eb02b74490e6f082e7b899
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11223 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 5d6b1ebceb265f5d52e3a678f35cbc7b998bfd5b15d1cab7630793baff512146