Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 690468e4db690d4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 81339d845124ae0a9e4e9a4c6128a52f SHA-1: 96178538cdf25846ba7c778023589ff5a6304eb7 SHA-256: 690468e4db690d4ef8be9595c355b3c5d8324bbef47487d1ac3e56df52834e59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=furry+water+animals PDF link annotation
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/gorezitinemisaxarufozili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a864f01d5bd406feb65f719062bfa55f/78247547783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3kl6cu59li7t0ib86ebemte65/67088834306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/zubefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc43ae36ec---97545382411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39030d51b7dcc81055cffc06094e620f/xulunozumiviwave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/gitex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873752a3f72---pokekiwukaxasadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuaodbf104ta3nj2bvrbus3o04/88288407648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///11770416052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//87502203107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/befigodoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/36594107698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759ac39cc39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqchrgibhj442s7v0n88m15bb0/robimivixutok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623b4d24db54979e62aed332c0260c50/geralob.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_off0000b186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB186 15156 bytes
SHA-256: 4f8700ad0e9d41054c04e7fbdb4f1afbc4201e713e661bf9de50489a3c5d7cdb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD849 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 4ea98486b1519a59b2fd66c52dd1eb1e3f5e8dbbaa3b727fe498db2776cc3e82
font_02_sfnt_off0000efee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1