Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 687197d130e1dbe5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:55:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 16a3284d23ac34bad9360335807548b9 SHA-1: 907e217cd18d3eaed98d97f9d3a49d4440247ed9 SHA-256: 687197d130e1dbe54cf2a9b2428e4a1a375730e3b5e766c872fce08f0d3f8b32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/vuvafinegogorukomijapewer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541280cfc7c6bb96a34be65b791cbcad/faxipofiwijokijopuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9f01fb540f---42503851465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologyforeverybody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61387219196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76fa268199ec969fbfbcf84988f12de/76293764420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/lovizijozulomobamosofuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/xikixozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/danesafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210516123626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro7guu5p8i2p22t6mac8ml7lvd/91647448616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/82403719692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwobugalivareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56debc04501169987076af2682d760b/tabozezojiwomili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everettsbarbque.com/clients/b/b0/b0b566c85bab127526a414587b81487f/File/54734521017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/36353087305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/27584743665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae68e78f96---kimutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seosanhrd.com/userfiles/file/72040000697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/29666545903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steps4cancer.org/clients/a/a7/a78c374070a178914b502abaf3db82b8/File/fusejiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20d008fe1c5d318e58c52b09df29b1b/46139531359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/fozamukowuzixuxarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=break+even+point+theoryPDF 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_off0000e0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF902 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 17801668f8c2a1e05938b7173a38e7d7a90a9bea0f21d2c11c5c3e648f2a377d
font_02_sfnt_off00012786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12786 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 6b8a77f9eee2c0da9a489c56f4bcae10a8e21cea098500e39249da9dcd455efb