Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 68cc5b698aa6f359…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 18:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e4f72b423d13e98875d9133588834a20 SHA-1: 69deff9d945b8f99d43f30d8db91dc0037938985 SHA-256: 68cc5b698aa6f359f6a1168fa6ba6bbf29184ecedad6fa32b97bb78aa074e3b8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a password-protected archive lure. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute a payload while evading initial security scans. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/gisuwuvirejoxowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/seneligerud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/26930442100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesudabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/5007549870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///kesivowofepovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iscuigsv4oq71onokpcsft3kl2/nexonaraninobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f57497312632a25d4e4c7747c4ddd38/nizopoxavelotaleraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/ritiwufoxojasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a935913d51f---58601636327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/zivetum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/wotumewuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a4d17ea76---dexazukiwafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/52347484332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/53441805284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5iinb9el3j6uq00no2q9n68i3/72205024094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwimuvelafaxetamixujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f88c590e1ed648c58ac8073a1b898f6d/14409837760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ls-machinery.com/uploadpic/files/202108171205423438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/77844756562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f86af20ddb2c5e2a6e333e508cbb03/42262729175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7049be69f39c248735bf36ff358dd7/rujasajuronelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f05b578524e---96522328552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1bdfcb38d---36743213791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ouran+highschool+host+club+manga+espa%C3%B1ol+pdf+megaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8DA 11540 bytes
SHA-256: 9da5a6b8c3871d05302916deddf5ac6ffd64526ad137461e6e64eeebd2e619e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF355 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 7102026eae0a66241b4a8e3b9db6ee7ac607c74c8ab2c8bf31775bae48ba8184
font_02_sfnt_off0001226f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A7C 3108 bytes
SHA-256: 397cd11812871733fb71e6072d8a7675e093917f0227b7e36d065127d375187a