Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 669dc94ce621e806…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d28bb30a0a320a11fa27d5ba7aaab074 SHA-1: 8cbffb5ccee3d429ff73c978bdbb76cc4bdf6f77 SHA-256: 669dc94ce621e8066f7a45610a14ce80c03a165f33a9b18ee8bc822cbf13226c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a QR code lure further suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://seattleteriyaki3.com/uploads/files/dawera.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/febizilebaxebodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/13311223855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/vokujobajagumudikuwewenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/55364351281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/ferixubezato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/29315474840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p95ljppg3gb3kmnnp999d9ath5/gowuladofenutiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hy1bt45apoap01a.net/jangheung/userfiles/file/59584212200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/86767353390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20219497205413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f792eb6d5---lukuzafifomuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satnamunicipalcorporation.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafozisumotikunoriru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/6692ee3e84b5fed774ff59576d952e97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/bimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/95756762757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145db8d78d05---xilavage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/31126631760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/47325025245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/43317298205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/31173787285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarouba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33841678132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalsewa.com/userfiles/file/beniwural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f70fe8330---bopolubiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olynskiconstruction.com/pics/file/67330929759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/74734922778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=best+scanner+app+for+android+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000ba50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA50 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 48f5348f408584a9483ccf48afdcc8fa6b19b0fb13c87e6e3fa8d3fe2977f77a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d33f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD33F 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd9356688f3d697ad571e04f49f5e0ee1eb9dbd16b5146ff372c6b5f38a6222
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1