Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b67e9d869b4a06ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:05:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 15b8a279690208041a32fb31e4e8e2a7 SHA-1: 96a65317f066960e3783afa750fcc7880f416a88 SHA-256: b67e9d869b4a06baa33da35e23dfa5ec6d35abde5bd72b2791e723771343de85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a large number of embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malware or redirect users to fraudulent sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bad+hiccups+all+day PDF link annotation
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3189ff1f8b---32124284081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17c9c5f4e2b4ce1c49c9ac61169bfaa1/nigusademomerinanoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/zezuvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0ad8b7c74d---gijaziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c97865c71---lafigipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomientrung.vn/uploads/image/files/sisugexujoxaxosakefowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a437ddd955d---tegedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cde4d5fee---64441062444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef3d93d134---13266536634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf2936ecf1---6435056670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/13330901928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f8b781dcf---57657209503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/3985718418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd596542c9---3086777558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608807cfe44c4---vufapeluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/litadovexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a922fd9e34a---pusidudaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2021.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/87558730705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/67427990906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reunionclass.com/clients/7469/File/lokerapibetuwutozivuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8j9v0evr5q5pmkv1tssrmlh784/jilewezavuloxibasudejetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4bb71a000---73401937740.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_off0001091e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091E 10324 bytes
SHA-256: e2c67744e4deddb37cda198068ec9497bb6bbea10ac625fbbe2c2d57fc9f68ec
font_01_sfnt_off00012083.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12083 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 96fb834f5c8205a702ade44581cc13f5827929a12e086b5095ddc68382dee9fb
font_02_sfnt_off00014cd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1