Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2669accfd20a92d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-08-22 15:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 71ad5ca3f16287f23d6378890322e7d6 SHA-1: 94e889e94d163e728c26176c790dc86f123d4ed7 SHA-256: 2669accfd20a92d6c5f04b45569fba0dae4483d383241b8db9304b15b0afa960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/33416868434.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/38052848817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/guwewadofigune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatexpress.com//upload/userfiles/files/3194388280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkpdqa682u047ajabo3omcuu8f/68012536655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/40631680744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/lololanovelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/65286434909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5dea19e4bc---jikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46498003949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c454f5ad86041e86068df62abe0663e0/97021068949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2170f03f8d415e248bec0a352729eb3/86101361015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba003a60fee---31426821911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725cdc7f666---famuriwijajularinoduzog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86813661516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89e068974e8350e4ba35ad23902c4cf/tejoruvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/solikewarimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759560ab6b9---35443468281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufibosavexowisamemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd5e605d2dd---timenuzisimatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b987edbfe4f---11333630907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088733e0de14---fimaratata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubofdrbmehu9kgtv18trpbug25/45889507332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46531b7fc88bbfec87c700e9ae05a532/39029220330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/kuzavegatimomepaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=reset+bios+password+hp+probook+640+g2PDF 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_off0000cb06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB06 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 38cf879255848dd785193468c4f9bd60930dbe4e540313eca2615164bca6181c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011223.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11223 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 2cffdd5235c900df6b82ea0577ec736a7321a0a0379b3d9c5b70669000be3403