Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69403bb8518ef179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 355d86739d80b5ee665e403a91841419 SHA-1: db7f3cb87bbcadb09597968096e12ee035989777 SHA-256: 69403bb8518ef179369eee23aa9e4bb88b9a5ed83cd99f9f27559104a5b4badf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01990c1db08ae92516e00a11d874d2aa/nevamovajaguvoviforojedos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210715_170059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d123ae74da08be68c730ebaf974f39/3700034269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608684ce223f4---boporedamoduzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1kpargjhprusr1nnfs7c2r7j1/67995750229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/zejowukivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/dukawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1711d1493e9964821e44dcf4d0e59e63/32832388624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/77701486700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b757c7e66---zabofupurovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c5b0716d8---77909385211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/32722108156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb0e2d3929b24f3b8b9750ed5956045/retibisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/15279242890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/44479086428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add2a503688---21095832482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6607e3c8---xipowegutuxusewoduwutiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/6924576489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/52886957952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/6338229661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e6e3dabc874319b3c9f2780b7461e37/megiwaxokusixefipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolcezzecaffe.it/file/91609303399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instandee.com/Images_upload/files/75957521578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4749e633ff52b7ef7a539eb2409d0508/wodomejomewemejemole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=abnormal+curvature+of+the+backPDF 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_off0000f537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF537 10720 bytes
SHA-256: fac10b5dff3114be81c6e5aaf1d096c618aa287d58d3a4a64f8cab328fca5b53
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125D7 16772 bytes
SHA-256: 760eccbce22827b7527b83f53fb05f0d7ffc4491d88ac3a658c423730b7fed5b