Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 767cb9e6aaadfcf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:10:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c9ede5af0538f7f423bc54b06adbd4ef SHA-1: 8d8ec71c5e14a7321e34ec34327745c63b2ca559 SHA-256: 767cb9e6aaadfcf2595dd99d6829fe0264cf6c928e5b7dc32ed1f7da5a58b4dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious websites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=super+mario+bros+gameboy+rom PDF link annotation
    • https://loonbedrijfschimmel.nl/userfiles/files/vabaxobatubegiwosulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonyprins.nl/images/uploads/file/74466524784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zigewelinomagitivexuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/dimedagun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f729eb9d92---folel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamnanyno.com/luutru/files/punupabagaledoxedoweduped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c19a1beaf---98549317175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/95839038931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligurudefejijedobuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109122337053639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e1a5a68c6---12855403717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ocptecnology.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/86962931168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613574521cd7c---19042784944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210903230713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/diwekidifabivobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94719017065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samirukabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c8fa0e0cc1---45040315277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/55753918901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9fe9090e3217330d97bde7ec58b06b/bonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/4224410986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/59051842945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajkolandia-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/83425815336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75805728023.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_off0000d245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD245 17624 bytes
SHA-256: f3b0f3f5dde1a351b2baccf0ef00ec6de36cd6eea2e59b3a56740de3a640ff4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001180a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1180A 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 6b0ed3c5fa5f1c202bc2fab56d2909477d55be41546f52202e071452aa1b26e0