Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 693c71419fb663ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-08-17 23:11:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 37211c196fcf132326678b37cf29ae8b SHA-1: d9c71746d916d4eacf2ca4199e92f00f9e51cf99 SHA-256: 693c71419fb663ca21de46ee47afdd325940608c3be5588e5d716dc148b8c99b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as a lure to download further malicious content, aligning with a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a85a862ef5---39433970918.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaithompson.com/userfiles/file/wujokuvadijefoxibuxururuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/49112266855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7ad4bdaba---dejivinolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210622153232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7947f0fde8---50831658745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7c67b3980f6999b76c9d43bcf1de59/42128249900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/6342064113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/280357344556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e2ae73962---zavilemude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608650667d49c---84747093056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/minofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/sikugilefezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/duzituzuvefosadovewatesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/7953826989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a435685e11bc2607c1b300ab747044c/29287561698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-castiglioni.com/userfiles/files/xikunosetokorudusoroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/lodagewemuluregusejiteba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626cc7cbadd358e6907acf03b0a5c227/38273740630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/56879464930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/26519350020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d78b57019c---49964689687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/nutipedetuvosakijebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0601bf1e5dc15d5f2e09eab331636175/51862123999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd0cff05f21e5ffff0d0254bd9552e4/bulamiludesuwajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35ec8a6f6c---5716868674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=miraculous+ladybug+season+4+episode+5+youtubePDF 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_off0000d7e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E0 11248 bytes
SHA-256: e9934a0d065d0fbf8bf91283f9a5adf60c6b75292c653fa8165c58207016b870
font_01_sfnt_off0000f218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF218 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2A 17320 bytes
SHA-256: c7733b018bef2e3082697307a9b1d6857f0b8f47fae128b3b9e57a604f928f2f