Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0769649f89227063…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:29:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d8b8cc3e9a5d2fc0c5b861373472442b SHA-1: 86f9d31c5d0a19f43eac2aa54abbfc3839f9e9aa SHA-256: 0769649f892270639ea7358d16d3882c4332f6b477e8d8dd8c4108d5cbe1c2c6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The presence of embedded JavaScript, flagged by heuristics, suggests the potential for further malicious actions, such as downloading additional payloads or exploiting browser vulnerabilities. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://seychelles-resort.com/images/blog/file/85973269177.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/berojuzuzopezezoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckfinder.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26350129169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkidjlo3tckrljtbupq4jevfjf/disenalevesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/megobuwelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1713be06a2ddfe389f232e59eac30650/51353055208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/vasunujexipibenatodopiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62698452086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/75565077936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f08dde2d82---pinekitoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/28020859425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/lokidomudukoputivaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210907135102189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.texaco.bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawodokofagutipadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411651e3dd0---62951816679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137873308902---6274260946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/63883804017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/22248673564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hpv8t2d4htmtnvr59h6bc9paj/25485257836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/46589103573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanoomhoteli.com/basefile/khanoomhotelicom/files/9918024732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posetili.ru/userfiles/file/6170094336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anyimaker.com/upload/users/files/kikazuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/gajadugimibogixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubodagesariregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=best+gfx+tool+for+pubg+androidPDF 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_off0000e26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26C 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 6999299e4c2e92306dd06df515dede8534d85171b1bfd60434c137ba53132fad
font_01_sfnt_off00010da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA3 11068 bytes
SHA-256: ea8feed98c2b87d1224a1fb7af3af15ca10e17c9886ab9b99e38b73d554f72c4
font_02_sfnt_off0001272e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1