Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 691fce54cb07f2bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e79f981550a0d4fc8c5ab446571b1b61 SHA-1: 1cd960d6b3a2e947add9e54fd176920b337b5890 SHA-256: 691fce54cb07f2bb2880f7b288c41c3571d3c72a873afaf34cffaf936bdcc0ed
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 multiple compromised websites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content, as indicated by the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875168e35db---33850897495.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/92927837318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e486f625805c56acb7dea30c487e0a12/fidojanilavokonixuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abicecream.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebodubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/42349021079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/dimopodizilewobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aba86d7811eecc75e77197ea3b71f0c/600018681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b601d9f19---woraxijapisevefosivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hf5npf03ob1kt0mgo86387006b/logivobufesojemekerapamaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f346f58d8a2---lujerekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/keronimofogaxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l64b82e1clg4p6hiviflrc1k8a/fozufavikavoraxibegovemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/94697581549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/mogire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/jazojetajatitibumoten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/woxupufevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d22888fa2---76656134909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/semijusot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b6b90b251---xapubuxelukimedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/320822e7427c47f1440114ea51cc9240/17569175947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/nisubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92300026285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otelm4b.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalagotatunuzeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toocapen.com/files/jasotemedajegetidimuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=female+names+of+animalsPDF 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_off000162a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162A5 18940 bytes
SHA-256: 711b01516a4b7520774574c66ca55761de952e268369c36584804e5ac7174fd2
font_01_sfnt_off00019412.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19412 10156 bytes
SHA-256: e9ccfbbbb6d9949d08fb6889e5880110a1486e1a1954cfe7c2850eafc33105a1
font_02_sfnt_off0001aab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1