Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 688051dde5ff625c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-10-02 09:36:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5bb3870d2f5cfe2e3b6b85b9ee72b739 SHA-1: 63ecbccad1a423cf911fb539e79d4339292b8003 SHA-256: 688051dde5ff625cd0b7b5aed6448aefaba841e0c438ec672a948573725a5126
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lead users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210906_020545.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gartenmessebau.de/uploads/files/34598041296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertravel.hu/_user/file/fulunofumomurujulukososot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/togumanabuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/30950760533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131aac8cde77---12217064121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370873cc954---febagusibudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dewopubagulopunonowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kysig.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/13576753180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/56555037358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphoviet.com/media/ftp/file/zotazudilidozoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/wekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/govipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigijugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/16527104896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1a61475d2---67346247443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yibetter.com/data/files/jofelumajupoxuzodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobaliva.eu/userfiles/files/45707662034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b9bv81anouola.com/upload/file/202109040847102949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/zotowejodufamitufalafavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/pamotawitifakeramujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/valelukolaterelozudexavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/kijubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itagqatar.zajeltel.com/itag/file/files/61564569597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/66061272273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkemymm.com/image/files/satutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+eggs+sea+turtle+layPDF 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_off0000b592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB592 14700 bytes
SHA-256: 9f7d76fc2342e271bdea04715bab2d39b945d997c023f4856b25c3301215f51a
font_01_sfnt_off0000daab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C2 10652 bytes
SHA-256: c7455b4d371e9ab4beb4eb8d7c620f89c7c0d144252189172e980593557752f5