Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 269614429259d161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3e1ef7ed9a13ff588f194d35fd75fec0 SHA-1: 084704238ae6e676808fbc15226b5bd0881967f2 SHA-256: 269614429259d1613f480380214b979b1724317c4f7dc37d7e400704b13747e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bc817ade2aef7e63be96e6f1d04963/82062077716.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/gukonobijegigarorajujixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/tekedipokawipomasenejivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/65318009814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc7fa511d9---duzasewixixenexinunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mbhpd75cvsntdu61v0g84pvncj/12370017584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29eccd5a5d3a0302e8c2085002077f54/fegofivifigunukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/2063103857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/45628092756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/mukavudumodupideso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusomaxokowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607daa450a2e9---71017141115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddcbf39c7d2---8315989924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/nojekumireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2c97a0adb209b173cb8d4da42629a3/80041488997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe6c47a7d4b---54464046807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b4494adab---tivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079353184914---xusatafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fdeff7c138---57452027866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/texirinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/92738964997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755270810f6---roxuvutudomesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=principios+de+econom%C3%ADa+gregory+mankiw+5ta+edici%C3%B3n+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/21679345334.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_off00010dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DDE 11544 bytes
SHA-256: 41a1f10d5b92d07d998b68e56d8004af42a1d9b00d4ae2b27fa356d773f36df1
font_01_sfnt_off000128de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DE 19324 bytes
SHA-256: 584ed1cdf9777fceed128d2e49321fb36fe43596b2d562c14a2ee5f0c9e7ed91
font_02_sfnt_off00015849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15849 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1