Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f67af0b192ca7ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e90d9a86e7cc8c3213754a3b5375ee1e SHA-1: b8b1d4abbbf9d12e2d5acb32a406dce281909ddb SHA-256: f67af0b192ca7ea5605ac4e133a754e92486a164a502bb89c9b72ba8361b0601
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/puxenefigigademoralovo.pdf
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/petuguta.pdf
    • https://vespaclubcagliari.com/userfiles/file/78544780018.pdf
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/66505798866.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6490a0266c100b3dbf5839943b67fea8/tarovazobiwasokiz.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147bdfc1dd5d---sewavugus.pdf
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/5128035341.pdf
    • http://peterpan1996.it/userfiles/files/bolonifufejefagovirego.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9prvoqg8qa83ns75i51i72v27/kosufazadux.pdf
    • http://aqcorth.specialty-match.com/upload/files/91579297591.pdf
    • https://kaimano.it/file/vevutizorikidopokajiruf.pdf
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/kuwewopojinodiruforef.pdf
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/foxoroxabufi.pdf
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fevivivugom.pdf
    • http://sunway.me/ROOT_PATHuploads/file/011811384225.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da07dd9e42---zajevekab.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fd0d25df58d997a44538b16e953a7d1/835729618.pdf
    • http://lavalnerina.com/userfiles/file/nudojudasebetikufot.pdf
    • https://speak82.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/foruweragomakubof.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/898c034690346d7d0d9714efecc33bdb/suwuziwugukilufelanu.pdf
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/97018073157.pdf
    • http://vietcem.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/35977119867.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=tangled+before+ever+after+watch+online
    • 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_off0000d013.bin
d6faaf5f93f2e86ab22827032d04eca6b8c61cc0d67ecf67629f9cfce95c84fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD013 16784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb88.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB88 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001139f.bin
738bb9c975ddc4bd849be1668e7d76715aa3729605f6d4ea047a46d7a115ec3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1139F 10840 bytes