Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 696ded2cdd758658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-06-16 09:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 5e5c97adddb70cdb702fcefa78bc940c SHA-1: 9e424e59d010855b754061b2cf0886f1d92677fe SHA-256: 696ded2cdd758658b733d8d4e23ded37e81931898279465d43a3b28b40102e73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear instructions, but the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exfat+ubuntu+install PDF link annotation
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nofj0efim7o61qaodghvq1f89s/vusuditagonowaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/21035428328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mt9ulu0otuj9222sf1hs6as63/63711581822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985dc89aea1---xigugizimiwipateweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/762bcebc25203b8d4360e5a560a50e30/9148511566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/12359371065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdfcmhsfctcj3ope1sldccnimv/34771517476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a793a23d8be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babb2b6263f---ruvarorononomonafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098deed0043b---tidoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3m3522jauuq97hh6gqt7ghp7l/viwupaxeresifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/gukidifojipozurerudumozin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/82718282338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/xabuzatakevifavowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2844c7105cc8db1b6ba58538f5cbc771/86567177129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgqgs72a1k3obp5i8o9vepootc/kanidufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FE 4832 bytes
SHA-256: a5424b83281ca45746229b4caa30562d33d75d11a65c33da21490ae66aec6b83
font_01_sfnt_off0000f88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88C 22016 bytes
SHA-256: cea35834f4299705052056b86484d2eb44b37299f967ed23ff0762091ce61eed