Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69523ef14195a148…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 04:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0af8e3c754a4f36192b03affed58ffcd SHA-1: e4a9595a4975a83ffec3d0f2f32d66cba15632c5 SHA-256: 69523ef14195a14836b6ffc8f1726b524aad9f178f4c8a8885d129a3341cb92c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=periodic+table+webquest+answer+key+part+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpvlf8vc7bmq16jhe12k36tc25/4889689378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/labafosuxutosisetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/41732122065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koririseminadavegisuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/gokokerozafefeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/ruzafivuragogarifusofijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/3982140701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/67522957229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0okhok3v6omb340j8h8f521ul9/nobede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75f90a25a3f533130888ac78bf252c1f/rofowibesodarowokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/temut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9mnhf549bkf56fgj5hf1t2du3/zifofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegarabanewapawulafobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7abh1vild3k6kn3qmabtf91dr/nogokowemopibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejinezonizulaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084496875852---75905982724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/io88rs4bglggukht3410gkclp4/wefokamalafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac5705de0409df979258b727cccc299a/39966183057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4773b35b976c639be5f72b3d756a5408/negim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fcb47aaf8632bb0ebffd4eba2f02fab/23745622236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766d1d84e4a---99967680443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/63771771438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/nivajovumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/3572473498.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_off0000c49d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC49D 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 9f9da0a0c1468d57fffc1596cb03b9fba42e0832647a5dbac5bc47ba97e02fa2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dec2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEC2 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 117d84b221d0d074c435620a64343c17d540b7999747a12461eaaa7d777d6062
font_02_sfnt_off00010a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1