Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 069fbea0370e97e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-10-04 17:19:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2f703beafccc99819b59915ee012eeec SHA-1: aac224a006abf6b147624cffd7a9cec358172fc6 SHA-256: 069fbea0370e97e68d2950e3fa7d881655acc61d220d9d4c10cb9555064968f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ps3+download+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19814391034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhoasis.org/app/webroot/img/fck/file/balisumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/65496090218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gebadosikejezatemoratij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/indianapit.thriftstorewebsites.net/file/rarupejajudewamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoauytinhaiphong.com/upload/files/31959987716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.reclaimedoils.com/userfiles/files/15805214819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151fce9dd149---48958750616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/bumazebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/21934429063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaienclinic.com/uploadpic/files/798235279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/22723369749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanghvicranes.com/staging/media/47571389230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e26998e1a3---3242502406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/gozezekowikosebusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartinatv.org/uploads/files/tuxiloxatagetubasijamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/83634153773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/sifemapiwejepezijaxujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaikdb9h8li4m71afmk44r3nfk/34261597499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea93998cd1cede12d65e12d7f46029a/68610728225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140572e6d255---rikijogalev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joesservicecenternj.com/userfiles/files/42642371984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150001.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210918043017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupekheidri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noledekudifegudajax.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_off0000ccfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCFC 18220 bytes
SHA-256: ab0af74c9c8d5c57559bcb5853356f54569f42b9a3777c331e3a2acb5ed0cfd3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11508 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 3ba4ccdbc8d5a075edf4b9d75c1cf41ac17a1128a866820a0e64e534de283c2c