Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a68c6f4386138f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:07:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 246696582048f782588136d05c501ad2 SHA-1: 2280e52ebae26e2b6ed07e012fb26dbca0a148c8 SHA-256: a68c6f4386138f87410ae4d5acf76d82dc84db10aa5c7bca8df9e4c0b2c3c757
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://businesslife.com/content/file/34672000433.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/14342346393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5edfa50d0ab35879d3884a37c4f725a9/komaxoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/supoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/93925888457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f6497fc2c---zisexebisarolijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec6cbbbf9447fcf2c102b73377e0157/1451094488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/58575859774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/fuverimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fekeluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmu2i5viqimkde25srei8l483p/38459091748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lblussana.it/images/file/jaduwetuvebudabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/lutosurakuwasefidosasafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbeea2535d3---winerofuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608778633b018---kuxagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210613050141_1048930258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f868c3a86c78e8279bcd5916db532c1/91363138219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099c8ac284c6966b6f7a74c71272e32c/10554876199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16214914622243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/18512693232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuxesiziferugusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/votilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/13469617873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jilienjrubin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tanekonazimipinalavireja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=passe+compose+ou+l%27imparfait+exercices+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD57 22656 bytes
SHA-256: 7bacace66fa55bfda073044cf6819c96b3442342a6af519ae6781185010c577e
font_01_sfnt_off00010675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10675 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8C 10912 bytes
SHA-256: bd8569fe3fad0dd003e75b31278c620cfadf6f59c7736ac2f0927e973b7f4032