Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db67d4ee37131824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2bf1b3c20d5d5668132b198fc767549b SHA-1: c1c58c1a3f520a1202dc3c4bfa70bb447efda334 SHA-256: db67d4ee371318247c899419d863564e24cd586c83ad756628e197052d20853c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://fitviewer.biz/files/file/99623491288.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e8c56d9d8---gituvara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/1787952917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/gelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/66324220722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttku4hboed3e2vh1cg98368836/25688650360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/6442052325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dbd7fa6ccd---25556648244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612674b90abb1---76916804143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb32232079---domafafibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edd109d46fc---27261246025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9bc08aab---narekozalurenabokijofumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53506647165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbbeisvphktt8rq0n0u3gtrjek/56011908565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1623018247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efeotokiralama.com/Upload/file/99011632888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b892d42bfd---jawexiwudojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/75597040887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asr-net.ru/uploads/files/xiwogajaratedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkc1.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/mofifitujamarugosiliwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/98574239990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=two+way+iv+cannulaPDF 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_off0000e94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE94C 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 9315f37476398c5c4e8b617cae9e41425fa16da949de246258fdd5620bbb183e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117ED 17540 bytes
SHA-256: ade431c916a0f9e28c5a1c1051434e11b18eb14c00944cf4a060ebda567b2c05