Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b67be04716c94db5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b02d103700aa58ad89fbd6d3f559c81d SHA-1: 4465eaee4544162134d734cf873153aad5960266 SHA-256: b67be04716c94db5d38ef6b106161a7d877c89542b6e60adc9994f76538cb465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised websites hosting other PDF files. The 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using compromised or disposable hosting for link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9868

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 http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bc86a9c1b---45984300773.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/50931854700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/4225082510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcd89999fd---44579010327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8798b304f---pawesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rca4igules8alfmt4pvliotde/zedafepaxifufibixepike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9235d85879---rewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/89319631772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8eca4074b---gifojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5340fe28f0---rijezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b843c622afce56c457af5539c04c80/jigekodeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce1bf49ab0e92fe7811d83b007a1aaed/18217421189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/muwosisowupesedute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1233eb342e4a2955d3b8b8b67eab1c30/lusolukiveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20596ff57b4bbf6433879b254e4d05ca/25706252498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d735843a95---23579276497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotherelectric.com/files/56810440992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab57531b54b---gavirizesaximax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210611114942_z7cnhg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608383dd184e3---zaregig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9c3495327---43172213189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082102b00360---kijofajotulufiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ca2c5c6bb09be5c8eaa8720188d575/vikulujifirenasode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/vadavurazazonukupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livre-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kufadimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+lcm+of+10+and+12+using+prime+factorizationsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001325c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1325C 19148 bytes
SHA-256: ab24edcf9c723456485cb2d94e752febb4e7e7104ab48ed8d26a56e7a9f8ff61
font_01_sfnt_off00016529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16529 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 86e456e67757ce6996765788e586657737c298d65582124560251eb1923e258f
font_02_sfnt_off00018002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18002 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 325c5f5cda05429ae92d15c23118ca1b8712e485108c584e1e30b0ff615913b7
font_03_sfnt_off0001952e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1952E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1