Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69770c6484687888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 12:25:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c50308159a3b265c8c5a960b3ce52c11 SHA-1: 0000e8e8b3a4b8fc64fda647a2c20d77b65905c3 SHA-256: 69770c6484687888b86e5ea193669b9fbb4be2f2e537e5232f52312dbe981f58
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to distribute further malicious payloads or redirect users to phishing sites. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/89227234209.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/57824658260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936947fca463bc7ef2ba4b1edf97b4a1/sedebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8f3066b29---31082933996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/pewemagevudini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cef87c7783813105c366d2d5b45dc6/65814412158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://by-express.com/upfiles/editor/files/delopixusemakarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1732e6317f2a6b5a5f8238b5ef44905d/fodanusopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3098fa55df5a72ba87264ed072eac866/44074114644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e434ddf1c71ad7a2ce1afb013a0a4f/tufiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5706a69960---vojupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/43894702402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/rupifapazuwawexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/babamewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujhimachal.in/img/uploads/files/kilopowesomapofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/ludimenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/wujamolinivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb7e2d3fe60c41489cd76e0d75041dfc/18678962791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fb12b5653---45994353403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/7684426491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1622672186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regcureguide.com/files/files/863967672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3da4db8c7d526b15833cc2da2a4cb94/fenuvunela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=haploid+structure+in+funariaPDF link annotation
    • https://www.assessment.unibe.ch/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonegifonapamatimosa.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_off0000fef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF0 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 472d911d2e28fdbdbb9d6437c9556b70b9869a5d04e50499545d6dc43109b5ff
font_01_sfnt_off00012e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000146a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146A5 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba78b7dd20b964ebcfef7eff6ecc9d0d9a5c3728f524e99c777d1539907288a