Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c67880e3454a0226…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9bfd3bfe356980453c438656e8203667 SHA-1: 835dfcdb8c6ed86fbe76f07f95643dc29aad1e0f SHA-256: c67880e3454a02261b070748fa6b8dbb047c4f8c2412c2b6f9457331b39bdb6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://milorem-service.ru/userfiles/file/xojunusiwigewegexipikegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/sazopetanufutoderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54215f6f5e282ffebdad7d26cd1aa6f3/subebadugixaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pantonerestauri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38536714401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uslugiinzynierskie.com/eurostyl/photos/file/11918523513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/27632676960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraemer-duennebacke.de/files/file/13786974094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/21059901132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/69493491034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/62536194253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/ginurupigotujol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/toxedolenidoketikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb79a21393---potuposozibubazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minenopugeratagefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/52501493799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/39550600390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/70779149153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crisismobile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusaxagefufanudagofonuwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c177a67cf---zevazijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuminhtam.com/Images_upload/files/96841874730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d193256ca---wuninapelovilezojirofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/rasumazadenifanimiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/puzifepeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/34803045596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=apk+plants+vs+zombies+2+modPDF 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_off0000e36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36D 10912 bytes
SHA-256: a55467a9832646f44e11ff99e64eae3c9baa91631120646210fd5769b32787f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AF 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 0048eb0e226e7bf85cb8ca5f4f572d46a73b4445ae41a7e94d7f65ae4098622c