Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 967fc68eb4d81332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-10-09 02:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 15b1e227010cbbd917fa919bccdb888a SHA-1: 33f1eec79c71bc3d1fcbd4b090b2723b2efe324e SHA-256: 967fc68eb4d81332ae67e1c2157678a56eb0751879d11638bbe9f17d210fb081
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to execute malicious code or redirect users. The presence of a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, some of which are on compromised CMS upload storage, suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fulton+well+drilling PDF link annotation
    • http://placidlakes.com/larpm/uploads/file/94638353208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613958b089ae5---tawonobopukafifafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anchor-m.com/js/upload/files/95783808584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/48382407292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fajni3333.fun4two.pl/uploads/assets/file/dimobimivufazaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mla99lnovc2gm6q4dv9rjqgb45/zadekufijikafovozomesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motecx.com/images/file/77902448276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ols10ifesu6lnhn609v3lt9sl/bijusesitumoguzozozoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdbabae48e6b270b5952daf35fe536f2/51958730483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/kivejimaduxowobegurimeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halead.com/uploadfile/1631346270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/vazaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiansabroad.uk/userfiles/file/woxoxikate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aacc11c392---zepafuzugufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljsmelt.com/upload/files/13785603896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.com/userfiles/files/77151280109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614fd8f68daef---59432282522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drterrace.com/london-100.com/userfiles/file/dunodukizapowoduzapitamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/kevagedinikanani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/xekumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phnews.ro/files/file/zuvujurozikorisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/xunowusoluledatodojuni.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_off0000b5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC1 18164 bytes
SHA-256: f99e29e75d312d6e546d5a1875af3f0e4b5a7262cc05c0e0e5aa955b497ac254
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD37 10256 bytes
SHA-256: e1126b25db68258d396517b50fcc619813345fba50b76024d8f5c41e7b4c2c87

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