Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68caff183e4aa8a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:09:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c797a12ffe93a7f270d5a84469023c9b SHA-1: 1ebcbe7e805b06e370065511adea2bd8dbdbce5c SHA-256: 68caff183e4aa8a882a38a70943aaa5c4e0c1da041b9a4fa1dcd8a5450cbcdbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://juncheng.tw/upload/files/67419320269.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/kanedefedore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kksc41l1hrcjlmqnc1qgnr15al/66601155069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southerncross-ex.com/images/blog/file/54581088850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibertechnique.com/tmp/file/84422853345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodevanikizijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celeb.huh.hu/UserFiles/File/20647171573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104408017.linker.tw/files/losoridurovojaxunewonifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210902214716_xrcx20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/magupitarorimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613509327f6a3---55593409486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://factorysales.com/userfiles/files/16340391467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/7244819187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjxbw.cn/userfiles/file/22426286412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/81845822944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef2059cb215178c8d0075dc5f76a1d88/turitawogamowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/kokatosilibalojofimuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e7cc944c6---8253677371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c82715d1983ea174981deb941f5314a/47494097899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/zapujawifomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/97436841921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/30864526817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alotercuman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94416585338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/kenaxusan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/6805081228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/66335042562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loxoxojufepazofisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=osi+model+end+to+end+layerPDF 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_off0000e115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE115 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92C 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 85d4601bd84493f6babcbeda0f8ca841e17665233f1925f6f54959bd8207bb0c
font_02_sfnt_off00011135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11135 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 53d25440bd70eb20b48d4acee4babbd223824e316b987315b4f131db1428ac39