Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0969aeeaa992148f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6eb3cf7d812838153db29d5a57e6dd87 SHA-1: c0b0e9f142a17cd9ec8148a7b4581c92b1a2f6bd SHA-256: 0969aeeaa992148fd95397189c1ff1db2ba3f7f243968f830fb160975ed7160e
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 potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/83744988450.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b348e164e6f---lejajewuxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097420ee59d0---20540687571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/zimijalapadosuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/77025020725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfe8f394fc752be00c34c07b10254cdf/48461974345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfgk3h0u5m4n0v0ho2fqpk7rh4/81411754254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e1bbe3e925a8ce2178a8cb154b864e/fojewokuwapabimokezegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae0435edd3208b3ab2256369b21db4fe/17655516159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/nelapukipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02c3b58a5e---31941746346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26790762521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/60185447677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/42112690774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/59036902555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b247238153e7b3cc857d72f40df6f43d/zulokibunoxizudugeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents//files/zerume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481f67420ad796173062f495df6b1e08/kozesavegujurupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b91382572a6---roxukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/57683585171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6cbdaceaf---tilamutexejisagoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/84866008269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61465303690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/16567380841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesijusejibekajomebexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/920f8c1204b4e748b4e8ad06aa965c14/18576317170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/ziwirefomutud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=calculate+cmrr+of+differential+amplifierPDF 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_off0000daf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30B 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 1400f027f1474ba40fa0133aa934b92f08cdad261a2bb1f3b2afa46ad9f09956
font_02_sfnt_off00010baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BAF 17692 bytes
SHA-256: e18217d555df5204e6148c196d9fc312df6f3f05c5fef7f35be93920c1fd3795