Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f67d959684cc1fee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:55:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 01f4b66227ed5990abced70b8f950c8b SHA-1: 4ca982c68f048ccfd8e3ffcc5a8d027a0ae1660f SHA-256: f67d959684cc1feedb6e76addc0bf6311d699fe797f31c69d0a781a25b29a931
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a lure to download further malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous unknown URLs support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajefupuxored.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5248ed150---95862838170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/dusarisozopurunukosake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/lifarexibumizupawofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballmillfactory.com/d/files/tonirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adacc0413113061f4c8511815ccffc50/bugatijomosofukisama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfalojistik.com/userfiles/file/52856790559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a45b8ba1e09e5f38ea5f2174040bbdc/kavuzutilenakifizobutiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/78672504118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/77308910701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac420ee9efbb0b03ed6e26410e973736/32020889354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/45043582323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/wepibagomusorot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a07863467---zemegidemiwuwatifipejepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fe93fc155f8c002961266547978cd65/82903246012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53559992070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161237dd39979b---xuriguweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/021423409679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/91404769049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/viralabatito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1715434d0---xoruwojolinuwigopesenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60749973206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/59235261578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/69886530762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/secjauk1aiur2obti63b4gqu1n/93230124169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=combine+pdf+files+offline+freePDF 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_off0000eaff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10316 10568 bytes
SHA-256: bc04aba83e56544f0781ac877d1378325763e35552ff3edf1308161e8b0b5577
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE0 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 8f47ab4bb9420e052b57450fa98d67d8b742207cd1290c9979734f08ae8cc4b1