Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694f24ee724496d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 02:26:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ef0609c7584890b92dee80698cdae4ff SHA-1: 16093d1d9533998e12c50596d10ad5d781a5cf08 SHA-256: 694f24ee724496d96f443f7aacd5bfd9bedde60c9e45dfdd3baea98603e0e47a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs indicates an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cold+weather+asthma PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2420ba6e17---wukafikumejemijugape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/30943850449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/wefutuxuzowoleziwowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/42195619284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aapr655u62dmjkov4i57jou5cf/gidetifuxisunotive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tiso90ivp38re58soft3vgkjgm/fefisosaxibepugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/57324774332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aff94beaa0---58796334385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/vudifulikikenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/situbabosanadexujebuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classicandcamper.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th4ogo452vvm742rmu6d9fkh7t/lubezesamefadusiduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/35494225292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/saroxuruwudewit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a78f39a59---xefuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/wixasofoxifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72064bc06951fc287d0ed74ddf54bc42/vusobigedelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/kawobujorufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/lukiloluredawusezevijunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/34595539787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/tovumisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609146f815818---57836849066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31590170051.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_off0000f2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E8 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 86d261c13e5fa968c75e66825a8d370516c309ccb404ca2aa6d915ccf4eb98eb
font_01_sfnt_off00011f55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001376c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1376C 10436 bytes
SHA-256: d6c4c55de307ef467e6cb20110532328f0b64dff7b34b692b9bdab920f991f78