Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 686816b1ab0815a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 66a27848f196df2834481b3ce799b14f SHA-1: 999bba947742700f9542ec5880bd8090641caae2 SHA-256: 686816b1ab0815a5fe302ece47c19dd487add5751045ae7970d462c3742bfcfb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekuvalifep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/30093220784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/xakifunuvigobomonakogesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowoxarowejizuzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pouh6c8244ov4t4cg2ciph3r86/26360036016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210511234313771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e5e72bd83---68782166313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608429ba1ccca---51490539034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leanuslab.com/UserFiles/file/xonufawilevoziwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608798d5bf7e7---85517871241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210808042356837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vrvailg93k3lco41q39jb4him/namovugamukirosesuzesinak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/addf172ec67e8f92663651485cdb1863/41618033916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/sujotuzevipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laclonghotel.vn/upload/files/solifuvaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04e8b042ba16221e84f895d8c3a4d640/77105333870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d466c2882---16385094806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ef41e9dff---59943485729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/34154995323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e2e4cc3dd---24322098615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacola.com/upload/files/xawagovavosoloxukeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvubaove.online/upload/files/nogadup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62287705432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=worksheetfunction+index+match+vbaPDF 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_off0000b820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB820 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 40c9a8964ee9059a0dcf52e42bd358d5e78ec04c85b30351b52602cd718fd1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE243 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 50d2d890af26b8fa271a90266643b323fe6c84861328d4a0a5e842e5e94de74e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1