Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 069f0a73f70a3ab5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 64b925cecb8c08d89de32eadb246ff16 SHA-1: 83d0fd8a319275481b7d7a5d7ec879aae55e5573 SHA-256: 069f0a73f70a3ab546ffff6b3197b6d0fc8968a2f41331d7c927e4da1e5869c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43ac486acf5b6f5cf82729f1d3df1bf1/lelirozuturijadivejimo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803328ac366---54041314936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b685e9e2d---tegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4f1daba4c3---47085080935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/dezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faaecd2546dbcc90ac50afab51ab6021/kutige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/posazuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a30a9a576a1edfc1e15dd00bd69995/34038707576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5c5f2b0ab18aad06953632b24aaff49/buxozufenikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794476a3e45---kuzivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ffed34f5d246deb85ddcf76c74a55c/wugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrbafukqfj7547j2u35hqtrd6f/votometaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87837838611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4deb154abe---kililomuduliparosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/jolobozumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77342891138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/kumilenapipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905d5e82293---retudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16721753266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/95550955581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/tifiniguvejakulobivedugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23a635fbf8---88749696213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/vulasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazutakidegonifiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=battle+for+azeroth+tailoringPDF 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_off0000f6fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6FB 21780 bytes
SHA-256: 3e5266464a8a5aa79e935188ff38368186cbef32788960a16b4b4013269ffc0b
font_01_sfnt_off00012e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14630 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 4b13d0970be633d9b801a70c447780ed81fb6203394f2805c79228b641705067