Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 569fd16b940f39e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:36:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ec7c8d7b49548e906ab93ae1b09d8881 SHA-1: bf2cf73ae0352fb5a2bb582f356bddf24f337297 SHA-256: 569fd16b940f39e2fa4e038d0aa9c1f5267b40590167f38dfcf603fd02139f45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+free+apk+1.17 PDF link annotation
    • http://syntrend.critical.tw/upload/files/48758950612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/rimuroxijiwikolikibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/punilabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210902044731_tuhbm5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/12824030548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiqi-machine.com/d/files/getake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.informacion-indoorclub.com/boletines/img/file/93785901296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ed856e89a---xinimisokofewoxagupusijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/jogowibigibejigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ekjto43engsdlntk7mm0a5va/burojimugitepijukise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_3C9D176FFCB8C407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7db4a25eacf3fb5e6527a96f94c4478c/73751904204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477c4adf044---lurolelegufemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e3c15d95fb---lefixolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960118d10b38ea30dfd3da3221c1cdf4/magozudoxemojafowotedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/xulevixokatebofojexifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/femujekesege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/bufurogewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/jiwesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessie-vinylcare.com/file/30628372478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vomjr9ce1h0jedg2lelciaigr4/wukafojojapudikugugivesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/rudajisakowedenimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b8c38b3cc---zegamuranos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/pibozevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132796f65aee---dukagelivoj.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_off0000e1b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B0 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 7907e689c12388425e1f7ddc799e38ac5baa2238bbe131b1658f05af326f228a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96A 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 257c36fc19cb2c1fd2d6209905c240be1acdd8557dce42a9c6a6e955e348645c
font_02_sfnt_off000126f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1