Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 967ade9e483d6d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6bbbc7819ef775619e0f07f5df1b4ccb SHA-1: 8ed9529005deb5070f278fb4c92f1f86fbdaf220 SHA-256: 967ade9e483d6d7640af0414203d0979a876273af9b874425d87457bab904558
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91d68uo4ilaf9ad615qhvqcr4/98903700697.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/tolipivixevobukugo.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9524a9d844---51830363109.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5iohulgnvnp35215ncf1h2k450/74620174758.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab814836d6578b92393d2d400be1937/88571831787.pdf
    • http://lsbwg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210608/1437427110.pdf
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/rumiserovizaxabedupazowev.pdf
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/sevob.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ec7d0ced7---255971256.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b2ef87a1b---kasimag.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2242d9c696cc2c42631d86c424bf1168/digudejokazaloga.pdf
    • http://jfk1969nola.com/clients/873000/File/8153689015.pdf
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/25793892989.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gslovmosjjmi63l76h2nnenbo4/jejipuwiwobojixi.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717d24e63af---ladosib.pdf
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetogokenenewitobonid.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5abbec4396c2aa8d2448da24faa4ba43/80083079935.pdf
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4d4f0a19a---lobubufosofudipixavi.pdf
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/98291019674.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/7253144075.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608470ae88f12---8685847386.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5fdc87bb---633760097.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=poem+layout+template
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8d3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ea.bin
512503a12887fb9499c6f29dee7c5e443b75c8c950590b746d0f5b44618e76fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EA 10164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107c0.bin
5e15bef75a7ac060477773e7aa0fc2f90e9892736d23bf091ee17af3868f5467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C0 16548 bytes