Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694b3038a29e3f06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:44:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0926f729ffa97ec5ec70138da8ee873a SHA-1: 76b1f4b7f184231b659bc87bcae5fb1c05b6484d SHA-256: 694b3038a29e3f061b40f7fcae4105139e296f17f895e09100a72518c05074f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly supports a malicious download or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+data+from+android+to+macbook PDF link annotation
    • https://www.fyna.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56734175103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/kapoxawoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/25683586370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614679c00fdf1---7954308438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89214072352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140699bd0054---82643251518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021091516433739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pixetobegefesodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/28726429528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210916010542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816df9322dee64c3215b94ec65599059/wazososekope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/fesatabizodifowunaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/dazamazezitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc183df6d6---75431748744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/48899727349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/kawivibarinovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/17811784041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/9980871598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f66f0c2a60dd18af92617c28ba5eb9b/74752318469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1159834516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/redijewizirebometudapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trips-in.com/ckupload/files/55727044494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulendengin.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vaferazesimilagixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f711a4d66e---tajenubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/fetudotefewajutadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39401029223.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_off0000d4a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A3 10900 bytes
SHA-256: e3aff9285ed34e0732c16a90785aeb25e0482edccf8d03584f637313055944a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE4 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 22eaebefe205fc3664ae43e4ab9c7091daf2146aab08eb95780f1901a388ce69
font_02_sfnt_off00011a18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1