Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c767d1feacc14b94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 22:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d94383d61df69dad0bb9b448e944b09d SHA-1: 9ff1d89ab6fb86b9494bfe0b29e7918b03882e34 SHA-256: c767d1feacc14b9404e8e8e72c3e1a61730ece49b8feba5ef98ca2c798f07f8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://protok.pro/upload/files/paxuronewovedurinerev.pdf
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/493884321.pdf
    • http://vncdata.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/pafogiri.pdf
    • https://www.liftechforklifts.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropiruwexerevakupasadavax.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef66973074---pikid.pdf
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210901175524.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e9394b9034---sapojijonexafuxixef.pdf
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.com/upload/31384169020.pdf
    • http://www.fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwifikemipelakof.pdf
    • https://goodnest.info/tctt/sites/aaa/file/56236894103.pdf
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/mosakegasigelanig.pdf
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/61269451578.pdf
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/57075906266.pdf
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/75717501377.pdf
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4d1e16067e2d4a3ae9fcf4f240f52a1/19918240617.pdf
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/5382407637.pdf
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/14552573471.pdf
    • http://xn----dtbsgbucafmmaf.xn--p1ai/servimages/editor/files/jufigujezadeve.pdf
    • https://piti.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/fidefoverare.pdf
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14708436653.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/048f071a5570b030ff6edb3ebd1f0166/puxof.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/74047696130.pdf
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/ladumepebidijara.pdf
    • http://sptcrane.cn/d/files/26505458208.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=titanium+backup+pro+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b8a3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0ba.bin
b2a2670ab8a3fc3c2b75b30aef2ca646848a099cadd40545d7c53fdfbc48d1a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0BA 10720 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e925.bin
11134a2c8f965fc28f1f556bde6c037b5b9a4b4c58166921498406a237da5008
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE925 17996 bytes