Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 069356bd134ed3ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:44:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4fd97100acf14fe18275e410c2245f28 SHA-1: 8bf83b257dd7c47fefe195566f4a5f64ab4b921d SHA-256: 069356bd134ed3baac979119a4cd50dd24ce558766da45cb891415e1e442fc13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised WordPress uploads and disposable domains. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS and CLAMAV_DETECTION heuristics strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via the linked content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/sutefakazivonifoxalapupo.pdf
    • http://9y.bfage.com/upload/files/20210910054348.pdf
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/jadokuvidalum.pdf
    • https://aukshanya.promosing.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidinelajiladuxep.pdf
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/naxokazakalasezenofubof.pdf
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/77811823637.pdf
    • https://millinerandassoc.com/files/file/37523379519.pdf
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajiwo.pdf
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/befiw.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ae18b9961---15193717837.pdf
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/67005136842.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9d3e5751---21224702007.pdf
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/kaboxu.pdf
    • http://ljsmelt.com/upload/files/25873655140.pdf
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesabomulu.pdf
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/78644680578.pdf
    • http://hmconcretemixingplant.ru/d/files/luwodedun.pdf
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/4387570840.pdf
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/tifisi.pdf
    • http://dominopark.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamewefigubofegopozovosat.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383937323d2---59768846000.pdf
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/69540622020.pdf
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/58800050565.pdf
    • http://ilsungwarehouse.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/38038166849.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=best+escape+games+for+android
    • 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_off0000ee98.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE98 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000106af.bin
1999a934bab8a6c719d4b5e8550b035e02bf369c3ea3b2368a1a76cf6d686743
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AF 10968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff7.bin
ef8e09f0a2883e5e9030c4a50155b8048cfbb5c4a0dab8688fc44b1b01dbfc58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF7 17172 bytes