Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e68a82938d6659ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 33ce3e3a8152ca42a7760a7addb0f63e SHA-1: b68c6838eb502a3bcf609d64e5aada3d78acf6e5 SHA-256: e68a82938d6659ece94e657c16d82c6ef9da8d7a4f9c67fbe312a679bfc65caa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure as a link farm, coupled with the suspicious URLs, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=other+words+for+develop
    • https://www.profiemg.cz/upload/ck/files/kapigafitek.pdf
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/46734582113.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/kubelev.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7486f2483---35849025291.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4663eadcc0---88967312924.pdf
    • http://sintellect.ru/Repository/file/60149105757.pdf
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44bbb9a906---kobemelotamoxugados.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76b9524c265704dafef710ef2d27f6c9/gozogup.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87735380d9f67e76ad5c8273a2c3611/rinimubemetexujuwa.pdf
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5a6dea93a---lalewo.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8f8207e51213f89f5940cf7f02129d/jososonixafaluxivanulid.pdf
    • http://slp70.com/clients/873855/File/65387053521.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4725f4f9f0---21741618997.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea1761c077---kolakituxoti.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd44396bd786f40b007c942d023723e/zasorobez.pdf
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/93830170091.pdf
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/29618923688.pdf
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/34248089866.pdf
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4uft1ut2e96qs9c0otnvf21mm/79687260756.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/nasogotaro.pdf
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf7b1aa4d3---nukabadifab.pdf
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/21775251406.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lescu61e553b72du1m911kf36/gidosovore.pdf
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/bozobamez.pdf
    • 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_off0000e729.bin
98a3660387474f6d65f91acfb956268c3f384272e81a63bcba33baf4515c93af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE729 18432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011748.bin
691e3e92ac4486ef620abce7c2f3dfdb6fd7daab1e97fc8e0a3fc80f761aaa64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11748 10412 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f24.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F24 16792 bytes