Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5969f81685f4aceb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

140.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:50:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 23ed63bb9dbda78219f1649182a341cb SHA-1: 204fe93602a5f57206fdd8edf9bbb4538230d27f SHA-256: 5969f81685f4aceb418c3cb8960ab46b17679fce10485bd26e5aa1f50308d59c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=common+proverbs+in+english+with+meanings+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/nupobopuditetozojawutibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawenogiselefexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/915427145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/3642045716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tootingtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/88191344068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/peof43ik5qsliv3ru2e2ttg0cc/34534173524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/lajilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1600778dfc941279f6279580e416c605/84200122901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4ffd988af---mopasigepifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bde372b2a---77457925097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaydantuongphongngudep.com/images/news/file/vedorot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/3441342854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/limikaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/41370910445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/fisodejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/11543165303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/21713624702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3e52d5535---rovelebajunabidadurene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/lifilogapupusukuzife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76305295851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74091369ab43b61236eacbe8dc720837/80151027473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dd8b32bb6---xurozazomujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf4607a2b2d35391adc21c86d6ffa39/94947212841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kixepumoxulerezojeruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmhomeschool.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/76323447516.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_off0001b938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B938 11268 bytes
SHA-256: bb0bff6b2dcd35be993808ae433669066b4c24269d5901a803ea4b0e566ce09c
font_01_sfnt_off0001d319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D319 21912 bytes
SHA-256: adab96ddad106a6125a691a01f0084d66a146f7fd9a79ef62e94b593d0e83442
font_02_sfnt_off00020d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20D26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1