Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df677352196d7413…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:19:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 97d533a7372733489312ef2733faac0d SHA-1: 34ee026ec663b1c0373fba76a58546e0fa302175 SHA-256: df677352196d74132618647972c5c6d29b9c423c2cb9b822c9bde05239084dda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely a phishing page or a further stage of infection.

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=document+confirmare+digisign+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/magin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d114b71d9---lukadunisubizowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/xinapopamirorazotepokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab5bd2a1e8---66297052964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/27252835567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/sededakelitumoduxuwobega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/90895337793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/guxizoworex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774a90f1aa5---22322091960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insinkerator.us/images/uploaded/file/40016386542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thediamangroup.com/_images/files/wixikaxaruxilevewapasanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929d8e24dcb---8969832534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/42577086590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/depiximetidulolidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/kofaxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f948286a3---mipedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/44522256351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf5fe945f1---61734082179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/52152871918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606c921cd3701---rawowomolaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvoqm17rsndt5gj395rak7396e/dovomipinanivodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semineebrasov.ro/printuri-fi/files/39514650857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/74705357225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/98226930219.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_off0000d9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EB 18256 bytes
SHA-256: 5925b236d563c821dad6ca8ce7190133d059668c0179dd62b38e5a2e189ee821
font_01_sfnt_off00010964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10964 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001217b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217B 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 11ba1d6b665bb86290fcaba37247dc5e03970108a608065d2d584f3be0a7ae86