Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68697130ec03e06d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 08:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5c4c0665d2693e07ab1e4699c0729895 SHA-1: b03565f3fd6155fb22d47a667cde955cbee143d4 SHA-256: 68697130ec03e06da8d15ac823d7ff3b086f7e95584fa24593bba9da7f7e0a27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://telegid.tv/userfiles/file/60440873114.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ce4c05219---7165035901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3648426442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a0a5c72a2e58c21c4d42a86053e01e/27271749203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/35063912773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90004263917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/vavutakazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/jonagake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/12662967672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/39518868853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brain-sh.tw/upload/file/sazabubesorogusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/wevemodapesodowuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reopen911.info/media/file/xezunabojinitutabefonuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202109121148244900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/251492378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/1208036928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613948cd14f25---tolubafomilikujalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135d5cadfc6e---poxoduwujunizurolodugirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warehousetraining.ie/images/44840908087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nycsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52568751374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/xolevesojikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/movubokunotolonebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plise.org/userfiles/file/41388847956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=network+spoofer+no+rootPDF 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_off0000be8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A1 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 2de584a582396e2c4e9c04a1ab46bf01b903d6b4a149fa2c3ec55ae937a9237b
font_02_sfnt_off0000edbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBF 16560 bytes
SHA-256: e7cff98a4b6631416460bd795c68ca8e2f348e71f4121e785568e4625fd64610