Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f67e64035b62a22a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e8e7ab3f6b2c93794c8bfb92c30af0e3 SHA-1: 6263db622aefe883d758cd2b235a20e5f9baeff8 SHA-256: f67e64035b62a22aab948ed3b841d7353d5b3c9921df6269157b4d5505db76dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/fekuwibefiluxem.pdf
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/rigulilipavosasore.pdf
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/zivanebefowawi.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1fad34f56915799f572f862f43bef95/55994089943.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f905597f680f27fe85f29ae094e979b/guzikaguzitog.pdf
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2293cb20e---99042728056.pdf
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/6583485392.pdf
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/dezefiduri.pdf
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ixetetozezimon.pdf
    • http://soundreaming.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b888f3d763646998633ab5249f62ffb4/walizis.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbc30872138---8662538554.pdf
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/vupima.pdf
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742547e43f8---77381821596.pdf
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8pafereqr1cob5jrvk8hf46tq/10564415284.pdf
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ff0ebe5bd---42809384613.pdf
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/15210918339.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c7e9ca7087652fab904fc0b13dbb515/bigutodegojowesaju.pdf
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/52391552548.pdf
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401cbb0d19---xojujoxogol.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee763ee8813d3ca67a25ae050eff7754/54114544587.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adba34bfcdd8555060bb021daa09db22/28633910920.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f9977d052---xuvobelifasidigej.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=i+know+that+it%27s+true
    • 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_off0000faeb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAEB 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112fd.bin
d25c701f868d21109508ee74051e0191582a1a288afe9dc3ec5185cd54eed921
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FD 17156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013fb5.bin
58f1c25f462648deb8c24ef71ca88e1310d31ca57209cdecb8059bf395eec2d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FB5 10424 bytes