Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 688393dbfbc97323…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f76d65f0fb5ae0be4e01c030e51b82bf SHA-1: 4f2be93bf1dfc88b81501596b9ca478e574b391a SHA-256: 688393dbfbc973239aa0faf725d809549349b1a3352daadf96faef72f25310e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter suggests an attempt to track user engagement, common in phishing or spam campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ipl+2019+match+schedule+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40450412995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinchenfast.com/upload/file/gazulizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recrut.com/files/files/tevuvozurirutonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618034248932986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofi4odogcdjo58hvlt6etuh1jh/nozesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945db6a34b2---jigazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/favorazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/wudikodotemopidifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4098620dd496e87cdaf1ffbdbbe8b4df/sijasazuxegawonunajuwumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66bf6e7932e37f29cd645750df2aa028/kaduzatoriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089131081cb2---78008984107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b626581e6656ac66533e7289184ae2/wesaxepidake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075271801e29---5126895804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperspick.com/files/negefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc1a9d0bc237d68a5173fec80b3eddb3/domizawemulalitula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/wetaponugetufapowilujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/tuwaguverobizuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e453fab7419814e1cd48c9b549ccda9/turosobuvemisefamomezezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/lakovepifudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/pizekipavujasifezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202107051346127713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/29203765025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/janavufosepazaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/21133623834.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_off0000d4f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F4 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 86501b61ec06bb6ca8a659ea74d18f6c62a368c53473bd6e9e7d476aa3652bea
font_01_sfnt_off00010272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10272 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A89 11292 bytes
SHA-256: fc2cb38ee3d6ab5e11168f89a2679a8ba7042568a7eb2106ca5011c1a54142f6