Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 069cf2865d7570a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:31:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 249b4ea04d6734d3436a67b040e0165c SHA-1: e90fcdce89a3076a7ee3cc71f17fe252a44aa87c SHA-256: 069cf2865d7570a261435d176e0c5a5ae967a0c12cc4bbe72a235577de2e860b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=list+four+things+that+cells+do+to+maintain+homeostasis PDF link annotation
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9139139851---tudipepudofotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087736b80ebc---41341052293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b46088f81821214d772fe6f73a0dccda/71237900920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58239297203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinspirations.com/clients/75274/File/dutufapelasoxuvojiboxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46d7286b69c7cf7e17b197efb23a251a/12370332295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cac9f2b3f0---80077901270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607905706adc6---sigofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d189ddf2c2d---66825659992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d41a339e2---49743809343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6v9jq5mm76nk9rsjrk2g96k3gq/22451782517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aac463432e---71203818980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cff0f2f40---bisilopuripunilavenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/96615373692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/76213903135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/60557953885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c301194c9---81513415435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f24e5550f---77208865742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rties4nnrama8bfpckdcgcp361/530521419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2eda70bb0---44370870255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/fuxazekawidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d64988cf8---87903603643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/33631628217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/firarijujujupazuseniroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ba5469411---fekolozewofekiperaxexineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001af01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c713.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C713 20580 bytes
SHA-256: 0babb277725f2d7636336021e1172930e79b9fcaab246737170914bfe9eaef1f
font_02_sfnt_off0001fc37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FC37 10980 bytes
SHA-256: e60fa4536e30ae4ca9b96b44393d9082370956af03e1357c9fbea7300fd81788