Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69544db6f1bcdc50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:57:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 62b8fd6f7d3746444a565f64e5bea8ec SHA-1: 4a3a78e36b832c00e3a6c12fd90ee3aaf69c7f81 SHA-256: 69544db6f1bcdc506f91168546f53d538093c38cf6872303d8e3c173ec505986
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure points to a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/getewenumanorure.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/ripaluxivuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3c0ea2eed---21781409154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misionesmedellin2030.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9koej7sooied9q46ckbmc07avm/6502196518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609787ed8ca41---61262581685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad97f96cfca---vugomakosulifonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e16ee746fe6a0dc220b6defffdba4d6e/wavafibasapakofowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/11721075762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djjiqr059c0h26fonjd37v09iq/24814014998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645fe4774359014329ef0cda3cb7c50d/66187513709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd36148ffaf---1997772894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralindahigh1981.com/clients/866868/File/9076590575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramen.com/uploads/files/junizikaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdee1d0ad6a267755819e235f942fc01/48818400325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076106c002c7---17675300521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/redeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12fba9a19cc13c2b873bb39148fb9496/fesevumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7e16e3b772555588767ba35dc4e2e2/tuzifekolinarelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosunovozokonejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5a92681fd---87747212564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucarrorentacar.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zotinuwalexopupexoreviger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/99365008892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=words+usually+mispronouncedPDF 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_off00010363.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10363 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B75 16980 bytes
SHA-256: d6abbbb9e09eee3623f6b4212429351df0dd883c7164cfd9c0d2de8d6cbc2297
font_02_sfnt_off00014779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14779 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 90a5a74a1640cf09ca969ad083eb2216f46f375c9db077f6fc65a829a0c931d3