Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d682c4e3e8e5efac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 67db7673df9925fdcbe03fa7dbc30406 SHA-1: faa2015b213c4cde4cdd934a10e4f73699e17a90 SHA-256: d682c4e3e8e5efac10f218d4460dbe9399707834eb5fb7de8787dcbc7baf854c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings suggests a tactic to obscure the true destination or host malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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 http://wakesup.org/userfiles/file/34829064210.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e054866fa896ec9ba721416f8ed306/vosixenilexudorojokiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfmaccounting.com/webroot/img/content/files/mepajegizajovubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukulivermore.com/uploads/files/90938221278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com/fck_files/file/24881091216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/3234478567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/nebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ez-surveying.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/pajijakikojogosimoruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f76bd24de5---24840097542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/gironosoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/24393697513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/21600453381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11433487973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/761096b2f6324f599a32de4f52c2c019/jexazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biogreeno.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58050809470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebd.su/UFD/7623/files/woxelinibabizofine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/28892558113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/jabaropel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptheduc.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/93933477250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/palaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/usr1kc7s9kj0pk0sacvppi4ms7/43626049841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mezixafarolabesakita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/tenazobivug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/67490869180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=one+piece+pirate+warriors+4+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000d8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C4 18544 bytes
SHA-256: ecc58f47245fb242e070173115302b5d31bd699a9faf227f8a35e84027c5477b
font_01_sfnt_off0001086c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086C 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 15e91918bff74c093ced163524e3b291630dfe13ff40cf29e737afac938e7b45
font_02_sfnt_off0001213b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1213B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1